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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]
Portrait of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1872 painted by Vasily Perov. The themes in the writings of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky (frequently transliterated as "Dostoyevsky"), which consist of novels, novellas, short stories, essays, epistolary novels, poetry, [1] spy fiction [2] and suspense, [3] include suicide, poverty, human manipulation, and morality.
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]
The theme had already been vividly depicted in all the earlier major novels, particularly Demons, but in The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky artistically represents and counterposes the two antithetical worldviews in archetypal forms — the character of Ivan Fyodorovich and his legend of The Grand Inquisitor, and the characters of Alyosha and ...
The Demons may refer to: Demons (Dostoevsky novel), an 1872 novel by Russian Fyodor Dostoevsky, also translated The Demons; The Demons (Doderer novel), a 1956 novel by Heimito von Doderer; The Demons, a French-Portuguese horror film directed by Jesús Franco; The Demons, a Canadian drama film directed by Philippe Lesage
On 4 October 1866, Anna Snitkina started working as a stenographer on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Gambler. [5] A month later they became engaged. [5]In the Memoirs, Anna describes how Dostoevsky began his marriage proposal by outlining the plot of an imaginary new novel, as if he needed her advice on female psychology. [6]
Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky [2] Povetriye (1867) by Vasily Avenarius [10] Panurgovo Stado (1869) by Vsevolod Krestovsky [10] The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky [10] Na Nozhakh (1870) by Nikolai Leskov [10] The Cathedral Folk (1872) by Nikolai Leskov [10] Demons (1871) by Fyodor Dostoevsky [8] Dve Sily (1874) by Vsevolod ...
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