In Dostoyevsky’s short story “Bobok,” the action follows the interaction between people of various social classes. The difference between those classes is of overwhelming importance to them and colours every word they say and every action they take. The horror of the situation emerges when it is revealed that all these people are dead but they have taken their tedious, mundane concerns with them into the brief and unpleasant afterlife that they are granted.
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