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Fodor Dostoevsky

Fodor Dostoevsky
Fodor Dostoevsky


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Fedor -- that is, Theodore -- Dostoevsky, who lived from 1821 to 1881, also became well known before the “great reforms.” He was already the author of a novel, ‘Poor Folk,’ which was acclaimed by Belinsky when it was published in 1845, and of other writings, when he became involved as already mentioned, with the Petrashevtsy and was sentenced to death, the sentence being commuted to Siberian exile only at the place of execution. Next the writer spent four years at hard labor and two more as a soldier in Siberia before returning to European Russia in 1856, following a general amnesty proclaimed by the new emperor. Dostoevsky recorded his Siberian experience in a remarkable book ‘Notes from the House of the Dead’ www.gutenberg.org/files/37536/37536-h/37536-h.htm which came out in 1861. Upon his return to literary life, the onetime member of the Petrashevtsy became an aggressive and prolific Rightwing journalist, contributing to a certain Slavophile revival, Pan-Slavism, and even outright chauvinism. His targets included the Jews, the Poles, the Germans, Catholicism, socialism, and the entire West. While Dostoevsky’s journalism added to the sound and fury of the period, his immortal fame rests on his late novels, four of which belong among the greatest ever written. These were ‘Crime and Punishment’, ‘The Idiot,’ ‘The Possessed,’ and ‘The Brothers Karamazov,’ published in 1866, 1868, 1870-72, and 1879-80 respectively. In fact, Dostoevsky seemed to go from strength to strength and was apparently at the height of his creative powers in working on a sequel to ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ when he died. ~ Page 441

. . . Dostoevsky could be called the most international or, better the most human of writers because of his enormous concern with and penetration into the nature of man. The strange Russian author was a master of depth psychology before depth psychology became known. Moreover, he viewed human nature in the dynamic terms of explosive conflict between freedom and necessity, urge and limitations, faith and despair, good and evil. Of Dostoevsky’s general priceless gifts the greatest was to fuse into one his protagonists and the ideas -- or rather states of man’s soul and entire being -- that they expressed, as no other writer has ever done. Therefore, where others are prolix, tedious, didactic, or confusing in mixing different levels of discourse, Dostoevsky is gripping, in places almost unbearably so. As another Russian author Gleb Uspensky, reportedly once remarked, into a small hole in the wall, where the generality of human being could put perhaps a pair of shoes, Dostoevsky could put entire world. One of the greatest anti-rationalists of the second half the nineteenth century, together with Nietzsche and Kirkegaard, Dostoevsky became with them an acknowledged prophet for the twentieth, inspiring existential philosophy, theological revivals, and scholarly attempts to understand the catastrophes of our time -- as well as, of course modern psychological fictions. ` Page 442
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