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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.
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 ...
Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian: Лариса Волохонская) was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, on 1 October 1945.After graduating from Leningrad State University with a degree in mathematical linguistics, she worked in the Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok) and travelled extensively in Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka (1968–1973).
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 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]
In 1860 Dostoevsky published Notes From the House of the Dead, a novel based on his experiences in katorga and exile. [14] In 1871 he published Demons, a novel that drew to some extent on his experiences with the Petrshevsky Circle and Speshnev's conspiratorial group. The central character of the novel, Nikolai Stavrogin, was inspired by Speshnev.
The bibliography of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) comprises novels, novellas, short stories, essays and other literary works. Raised by a literate family, Dostoyevsky discovered literature at an early age, beginning when his mother introduced the Bible to him.