- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Dostoyevsky, fyodor, 1821-1881, Fiction
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- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 48
- Publisher
- M. Secker, Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Macmillan Pub Co
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- French, German, Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9788472235120
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“"Quite impossible, as you see, to start without an introduction," laughed Ivan.”
Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky was a journalist and short-story writer, whose psychological penetration into the human soul profoundly influenced the 20th century novel. Dostoevsky's novels have much autobiographical elements, but ultimately they deal with moral and philosophical questions. He presented interacting characters with contrasting views or ideas about freedom of choice, Socialism, atheisms, good and evil, happiness and so forth. Dostoevsky's central obsession was God, whom his characters constantly search through painful errors and humiliations. ([Source](http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fdosto.htm)) Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the trou
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