Dostoevsky
Wrote psychological fiction
Dostoevsky (also Dostoyevsky) is the surname of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), Russian novelist whose psychological and philosophical explorations of guilt, faith, and human nature made him one of literature's most influential figures.
His major works include *Crime and Punishment*, *The Brothers Karamazov*, and *The Idiot*.
Dostoevskian describes work marked by intense psychological depth, moral anguish, or characters tormented by existential questions: The film had a Dostoevskian bleakness.
Rejection of objective meaning
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
- freewillCapacity for autonomous choice
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
morality · guilt · conscience · sin · atonement · absurdity · meaninglessness · authenticity
Faith based on Jesus
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- faithTrust without proof
- atheismRejection of deities
- soulInnermost animating essence
prayer · resurrection · monasticism · miracle · forgiveness · grace · suffering · revelation
Eastern Slavic language
- literatureBody of written works
- classicsWorks of lasting value
- realismAccepting things as they are
- proseUnversified language
narrative · characterization · dialogue · storytelling · serialized · Siberia · exile · epilepsy
Twofold nature
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
- introspectionObserving one's own mind
- paranoiaIrrational persecution fears
compulsion · consciousness · madness · humiliation · resentment · underground · masochism · interiority
Penalty for an offense
- crimePunishable illegal act
- povertySevere lack of resources
- serfdomFeudal bound labor
- prostitutionCommercial sexual services
murder · imprisonment · execution · revolutionaries · radicals · utilitarianism · socialism · intelligentsia
nihilism
Rejection of objective meaning
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
- freewillCapacity for autonomous choice
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
redemption · morality · guilt · conscience · sin · atonement · absurdity · meaninglessness · authenticity · despair
Christianity
Faith based on Jesus
soul · prayer · resurrection · monasticism · miracle · forgiveness · grace · suffering · revelation · icon
Russian
Eastern Slavic language
- literatureBody of written works
- classicsWorks of lasting value
- realismAccepting things as they are
prose · narrative · characterization · dialogue · storytelling · serialized · Siberia · exile · epilepsy · gambling
duality
Twofold nature
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
- introspectionObserving one's own mind
paranoia · compulsion · consciousness · madness · humiliation · resentment · underground · masochism · interiority · torment
punishment
Penalty for an offense
prostitution · murder · imprisonment · execution · revolutionaries · radicals · utilitarianism · socialism · intelligentsia · fatherhood
- Classic AuthorsShakespeare, Dante, Homer, Chaucer, Milton
- Russian LiteratureTolstoy, Chekhov, Pushkin, Nabokov, Turgenev
- European AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Jane Austen, Dante
- european novelistsTolstoy, Dickens, Victor Hugo, Kafka, Jane Austen
- golden age authorsDickens, Twain, Poe, Austen, Tolstoy
- Russian FiguresStalin, Lenin, Gorbachev, Trotsky, Brezhnev
DostoevskyJane Austen
Regency-era English novelist
P.G. Wodehouse · light comedy · Tolstoy · Oscar Wilde · Voltaire
DostoevskyVoltaire
French Enlightenment satirist
Bertrand Russell · Ayn Rand · secular humanism · Nietzsche · Marx