The horror of success and serenity

The Cremator (1969) depicts a moral nightmare that just won't leave me alone

The one word that best describes Dostoevsky's novels is "torment" - there are plenty of other words but that's the word that keeps me coming back to him. His most interesting characters are the ones who have rich and well-thought-out worldviews that are both intellectually compelling and psychologically unsustainable, characters who are torn in differen…