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00:00Concerning the personal history of my hero, Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, I must confess to a certain degree of insecurity.

00:08You see, although I have framed Alexei Fyodorovich as my hero, and indeed do consider him as such,

00:15it has not escaped me that he lacks the typical heroic quality found in capital G great men,

00:21and therefore I can already hear such questions as,

00:24what is so interesting about your Alexei Fyodorovich that compelled you to choose him for your hero?

00:28What has he done, exactly? To whom and for what has he known?

00:33Why should I, the reader, commit my valuable time and attention to the study of the facts of his life?

00:39This last question is the most fatal.

00:42I can only respond, maybe if you read the novel you'll find out for yourself.

00:47Well, what if they read the novel and don't find out?

00:51Don't share my interest in my Alexei Fyodorovich.

00:54I present this scenario because, unfortunately, I see it as almost inevitable.

00:58To me he is interesting, but it seems somehow unlikely I could succeed in convincing anyone of this.

01:04I would posit that he does cut a kind of figure, even if it is of a murky, nebulous sort.

01:10Although, in all fairness, you must agree that it would be odd to demand crystal clarity from people in such times as ours.

01:16One thing, at least, is quite certain.

01:18This is an unusual person, perhaps even peculiar, though admittedly this does not help my case.

01:27Not these days, when everyone is scrambling after superstructures and unified theories

01:32and trying to cram the swirling chaos of being into a more or less orderly algorithm.

01:38A peculiar individual is, unhelpfully, a unique and isolated case.

01:44No?

01:44Now, if you don't agree with this last thesis and answer no, or not necessarily,

01:51then I, perhaps, will feel a little lighter in my soul regarding the significance of my Alexei Fyodorovich.

01:57For not only is a peculiar man not necessarily unique and isolated,

02:01but, on the contrary, it sometimes happens that it is precisely this man

02:06who embodies the spirit of the epoch,

02:09while the surrounding population has, for some reason or another, been, shall we say, blown off course.

02:16I would ordinarily bypass such dry and pointless qualifications and start directly without a preface.

02:23You haven't come for a preface, after all.

02:25But the issue is that I have one narrative and two novels.

02:30The primary novel is the second.

02:32It concerns the activities of my hero in our time, in our immediate present moment.

02:38The first novel, whose events took place thirteen years ago,

02:41is almost not even a novel, really, but just one moment from my hero's early youth.

02:47To go without this first novel would be impossible,

02:49or else readers of the second novel would, I fear, be hopelessly lost.

02:53But here my initial worries are further compounded.

02:56If even I, the biographer, find that even one novel might be,

03:01for such a humble and amorphous hero, unjustifiable,

03:04what then if I appear with two?

03:07How can I excuse such presumptuousness on my part?

03:11Faced with these questions, and being unable to answer them,

03:14I have decided not to.

03:16Naturally, the astute reader will have been on to me from the very beginning,

03:19and will only be peeved at my deliberate wasting of empty words and precious time.

03:24To this I can respond quite precisely.

03:27I have been wasting my words and your time,

03:29firstly, out of professional courtesy,

03:31and secondly, for my own pleasure.

03:34Remember, I did warn you in advance.

03:37Actually, I'm even glad that my novel broke itself into two volumes,

03:41which together comprise a unified whole.

03:44Once acquainted with the first volume, the reader has a decision.

03:47Should she involve herself with the second?

03:48Of course, no one is bound by anything.

03:52One can drop the book after the second page of the first volume,

03:55avoiding further exposure to its material.

03:58But at the same time, there do exist those readers of such exquisite taste and sophistication

04:04that will most certainly read through to the very end,

04:06so as not to commit that mortal sin of the uninformed opinion.

04:11Take, for instance, all Russian critics.

04:14In the presence of such people, my heart is lighter.

04:16That being said, while commending their diligence and scruples,

04:21regardless, I'm giving them the most legitimate excuse

04:23for abandoning the story after the first episode of the novel.

04:28Well, there you have the preface.

04:31I'm in full agreement that it's worthless,

04:33but since it's already been written, it may as well be read.

04:37And now, to business.

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