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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Notes from Underground (pre-reform Russian: Записки изъ подполья; post-reform Russian: Записки из подполья, Zapíski iz podpólʹya; also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) [a] is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky first published in the journal Epoch in 1864.
First English language edition (publ. Hamish Hamilton, 1960) The Possessed (in French Les Possédés) is a three-part play written by Albert Camus in 1959. The piece is a theatrical adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1872 novel The Possessed, later renamed Demons.
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 ...
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 ...