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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist and, side by side with Tolstoy, one of the best writers of Russian realism. He lived a hard life in poverty and also had epilepsy. He faced a death sentence, Siberian jail and the death of dear members of his family. His books have been translated into more than 170 languages.

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Crime and Punishment

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"Crime and Punishment" is one of the most famous and most read novels by F.M. Dostoyevsky which brought him fame. He writes about the same theme he wrote about in "The Idiot" and "The Brothers Karamazov" - sin and redemption. Dostoyevsky deals with the degradation of Russian society and family in most of his works. […]

Notes from Underground

Summary  Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes from Underground is a novella written in 1864 by Fyodor Dostoevsky and considered to be one of the first existentialist novels. Its form is an excerpt from the memoirs of an unnamed narrator (referred to as the Underground Man), a former low-rank civil servant that lives in St. Petersburg. The first part, "Underground", is […]

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