Gripping portrait
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This book relates the author's vivid impressions during his travels all over Europe in the second half of the 19th century. His main targets are France (Paris) and England (London).
Dostoyevsky gives us a biting and cynical portrait of the French: parvenus and bourgeois who make a mockery of 'liberté, égalité, fraternité'.
In England, he is confronted with child prostitution in London's Haymarket: a most terrible and moving scene of a child of only six, black and blue beaten, barefoot, who tries to lure him to have sex with her. On the other side of the social spectrum, the Anglican clerics preach a religion for the wealthy and don't even hide it. A most pregnant sketch of the fat and the meagre.Highly recommended.
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