Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky was a nineteenth-century Russian novelist whose psychological depth and philosophical intensity shaped modern literature.
His major works—*Crime and Punishment*, *The Brothers Karamazov*, *The Idiot*, *Notes from Underground*—explore guilt, faith, free will, and the darker reaches of human consciousness.
His characters wrestle with moral extremes, often in feverish internal monologue.
Dostoevsky's influence extends to existentialism, psychoanalysis, and nearly every serious novelist who followed.
- Russian literatureFiction from that vast nation
- free willAutonomous choice capacity
- moral philosophyStudy of right conduct
- Siberian exileBanishment to frozen lands
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
Crime and Punishment · redemption · suffering · The Brothers Karamazov · Grand Inquisitor · Tsarist Russia · epilepsy · human soul · Sigmund Freud · spiritual struggle · penal servitude · nihilism · Petersburg · Ivan · serfdom · Russian · Orthodox Christianity · poverty
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Literary AuthorsC.S. Lewis, Dostoevsky, J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde
- NovelistsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen
- DostoevskyCrime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Gambler, Raskolnikov, novels
- Christian AuthorsC.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Finney, John Milton, Blaise Pascal
Fyodor DostoevskyJane Austen
Regency-era English novelist
Leo Tolstoy · P.G. Wodehouse · Oscar Wilde · Anton Chekhov · Gustave Flaubert
Fyodor DostoevskyÉmile Zola
H.G. Wells · George Eliot · Bertrand Russell · Charles Dickens · Victor Hugo