Kirillov, Hitler, the Capitol riot – and the potential link between tea and suicide
Liberal Currents, May 25, 2021
I first encountered Fyodor Dostoevsky through Alexei Nilych Kirillov, one of his characters in Demons—not in the novel itself, but in Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus, much of which grapples with the philosophical reasoning behind Kirillov’s decision to shoot himself.
