Voyage

BELINSKY I know I don't. Can you lend me a dictionary?

BELINSKY No, the job is to translate French novels for the Telescope … I'm translating Paul de Kock …
STANKEVICH Oh, you're going to be a translator. That's a completely different matter. That is a gentleman's occupation.
BELINSKY You approve.
STANKEVICH But … you don't know French.

twenty books a month for your sixty-four roubles, cookbooks, jokebooks, guidebooks …

BELINSKY (calls out) Stankevich! Something good at last. Nadezhdin has offered me work on the Telescope. He's going to pay me sixty-four roubles a month.
STANKEVICH You can't live on that.
BELINSKY I've been living without it.
STANKEVICH Of course you have, look at you, but you can't live on it.
BELINSKY But what else can I do?
STANKEVICH Be … an artist. Or a philosopher. Everything now depends on artists and philosophers. Great artists to express what can't be explained, philosophers to explain it!
BELINSKY What I want to be is a literary critic.
STANKEVICH That's a job for people whose second book didn't come up to expectations. Nadezhdin will have you reviewing

Political arrangements are merely changing forms in the world of appearances.

We are revolutionaries with secret arsenals of social theory.