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Dostoevsky saw Russia's growing suicide rate as a symptom of the decline of religious faith and the concomitant disintegration of social institutions like the family. [67] Self-destruction as a result of atheism or loss of faith is a major theme in Demons and further recalls the metaphor of the demon-possessed swine in the epigraph. [68]
Fyodor Dostoevsky: One of the titular brothers and the most amoral one. Ivan's agnosticism stands in contrast to his half-brother's, Alyosha, devotion. Alexei Nilych Kirillov Demons: Fyodor Dostoevsky: A mentally ill socialist, who doesn't believe in God and desires the whole world to commit suicide and set itself free from fear. Meursault: The ...
Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov (1990) Crime and Punishment (1992) Notes from Underground (1993) Demons (1994) The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (1997) A Nasty Anecdote; The Eternal Husband; Bobok; The Meek One; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man; The Idiot (2002) The Adolescent (2003) The Double (2005) The Gambler (2005) Notes from a ...
The book was a major critical success in the German-speaking world. Critics compared it to the works of Dostoevsky, Dante Alighieri, Leo Tolstoy and Honoré de Balzac.The critic Klaus Nüchtern described its scale and structure as a development of the architecture of Gothic cathedrals. [1]
Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature.She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English.
La Chinoise is a loose adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1872 novel Demons (also known as The Possessed). In the novel, five disaffected citizens, each representing a different ideological persuasion and personality type, conspire to overthrow the Russian imperial regime through a campaign of sustained revolutionary violence.
As President Donald Trump moved last month to free the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol, his newly appointed top prosecutor in Washington put his name on a request that a judge drop charges ...
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky [a] [b] (11 November [O.S. 30 October] 1821 – 9 February [O.S. 28 January] 1881) [3] was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature , [ 3 ] as many of his works are considered highly influential ...