Five Different Ways of Understanding Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Village of Stepanchikovo”

Recently, I’ve finished some of Dostoevsky’s less known novels “The Village of Stepanchikovo” or how it is called if we make a literal translation of its title “The Village of Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants.” I find this second translation more accurate, correct, and representative because it bears this hint of irony and a specific Russian sense of humor that is so beautiful in Dostoevsky’s early short novel.