Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Fyodor Dostoevsky transliterated Dostoyevsky or Dostoievsky (November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881) is considered one of the greatest writers of Russian and world literature. His works have had a profound and lasting effect on twentieth-century literature.
Dostoevsky often portrayed characters living in poor conditions with equally disparate and troubled states of mind. This allowed him to explore human psychology in the political, social and spiritual context of 19th Century Russian society. Some scholars consider him the founder of existentialism. Philosopher Walter Kaufmann wrote that Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground (1864) is the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
Major works
- Бедные люди Poor Folk (1846)
- Двойник. Петербургская поэма The Double: A Petersburg Poem (1846)
- Неточка Незванова Netochka Nezvanova (1849)
- The Uncle's Dream (1859)
- Село Степанчиково и его обитатели The Village of Stepanchikovo (1859)
- Униженные и оскорбленные The Insulted and Humiliated (1861)
- Записки из мертвого дома The House of the Dead (1862)
- Записки из подполья Notes from Underground (1864)
- Преступление и наказание Crime and Punishment (1866)
- Игрок The Gambler (1867)
- Идиот The Idiot (1869)
- The Eternal Husband (Вечный Муж) (1870)
- Бесы The Possessed (1872)
- Подросток The Raw Youth (1875)
- Братья Карамазовы The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
- Дневник писателя A Writer's Diary (1873-1881)
Short stories
- Mr Prokharchin (1846)
- Novel in Nine Letters (1847)
- Polzunkov (1847)
- The Landlady (1847)
- The Jealous Husband (1848)
- White Nights (Белые ночи) (1848)
- A Christmas Tree and a Wedding (Елка и свадьба) (1848)
- A Weak Heart (Слабое сердце) (1848)
- An Honest Thief (Честный вор) (1848)
- The Little Hero (1849)
- A Nasty Story (1862)
- Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863)
- The Crocodile (1865)
- Bobok (1873)
- The Peasant Marey (Мужик Марей) (1876)
- The Heavanly Christmas Tree (1876)
- A Gentle Creature (Кроткая, sometimes translated as The Meek Girl) (1876)
- The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Сон смешного человека) (1877)
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