The Gentle Spirit: A Fantastic Story

This is quite out of usual reading genre, but Dostoyevsky has some appeal, and I have a copy of Crime and Punishment lined up for the future, so I thought I would polish off this short story in the meantime.
So the story is basically the inner thoughts shared with the reader by a middle aged pawn-broker whose young wife has just committed suicide. Hard to explore more detail without spoiling the story for anyone who plans to read it, but there are multiple thoughts the man shares - was he to blame - had the way he dealt with situations been wrong - he tries to convince himself he was not wrong - to justify his behaviour, to weigh up his actions with reason.
To be fair if it was much longer I might not have stuck it out - this isn't compelling reading for me - however I can understand the appeal to others - for me there is too much emotion and self analysis, but I can appreciate the quality of the writing (and translation) as others may enjoy it.

3 stars.