Is White Nights a Warning Against Fantasy?
by Faizaan Bashir A reflection on Dostoevskys White Nights, exploring loneliness, fantasy, emotional dependence and why imagined love often ends in heartbreak. Social media nowadays is swarming with reels featuring Nastenka and the Dreamer, the characters from White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The melancholic background music, tinged with nostalgia, tugs at the heart and seems []