Note 98 — INTRODUCTION TO THE UNPUBLISHED CHAPTER OF THE POSSESSED

Compare the passage in Stavrogin’s Confession from “A year ago, in the spring, going through Germany, I absentmindedly left the station behind me,” to the words “A whole shaft of bright slanting rays from the setting sun rushed out and poured their light over me,” with the corresponding passage of Chapter VII., Part III., of The Raw Youth, third edition, 1888, pp. 461-462.