In which the two half-brothers discuss the missing third...
Koznyshev and Levin have little in common, and their conversation is formal and polite, until they discuss Nicholas, Levin's elder brother.
Nicholas is apparently a "ruined man who had squandered the greatest part of his fortune, mixed with the strangest and worst society, and quarrelled with his brothers."
He also wrote Koznyshev a note basically telling his brothers to leave him alone. Levin, disturbed, wants to meet with him.
The way Levin says "Ah, it's dreadful, dreadful!" at the end of the chapter seemed to be an echo of Oblonsky's lament at the end of chapter V: "Oh, things are wretched, miserable!"
Russian literature, ladies and gentleman.
Nicholas sounds like he will make an interesting addition to these brothers. It's been a while since I read The Brothers K, but it looks like we may have the same spread: the intellectual, the soulful, and the rascal.
Will Koznyshev have a fever dream and debate with Satan? Stay tuned!
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