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This starts out as an interesting study of a character("the perfect man", according to Dostoyevsky), but the interactions of plots, subplots, and parallel intrigues weighs it down, as Dostoyevsky begins to send his main character, the perfect man, into tailspin after tailspin. I believe this book was written in periodical form(?) and so it lags in many places as one tries to keep the various storylines in order.