![]() ![]() The Crocodile was first performed on 13 July 2015 at the Pavilion Theatre, Manchester, as part of Manchester International Festival. Read moreĬopyright and Performing Rights Information Regardless, this work is for Dostoevsky diehards only. That would have been rather heartless indeed, despite their ideological differences, since Dostoevsky knew first-hand just how cruel and unfair imprisonment for political reasons was, but his account, which includes personal anecdotes with Chernyshevsky, seems believable. Frankly, it was more interesting to me to read his rebuttal to the claim that the man represented Nikolai Chernyshevsky, which he did years later in ‘Diary of a Writer’ and which was excerpted in the afterward. Dostoevsky himself said that it was the first part to a comic story that he never finished, and it shows. ![]() Clearly, the crocodile that swallows a man only to have him continue philosophizing within its belly is meant to be an absurd satire on these ideals, but it isn’t all that well developed. ![]() The period in which Dostoevsky wrote this was one of great personal and economic strife, and he was finding an outlet for his increasing dislike of progressive European ideals. It’s not that I didn’t like this short story from Dostoevsky, it’s just that it’s incomplete, and comes across as a fragment of an idea. ![]()
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