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The Eternal Husband, one of Dostoevsky's lesser-known novels, is thought by many critics to be among his most powerful and perfect works. Pavel Pavlovitch is the "eternal husband, " which Velchaninov, his wife's former lover, defines as a buffoon doomed to be nothing more than an appendage to his wife. The psychological duel at the heart of the story drives this tale of obsession, revenge, and the search for redemption. A brutal slow-boiler of...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born on 11th November 1821.He was introduced to literature very early. At age three, it was heroic sagas, fairy tales and legends. At four his mother used the Bible to teach him to read and write. His immersion in literature was wide and varied. His imagination, he later recalled, was brought to life by his parents' nightly readings.On 27th September 1837 tragedy struck. Dostoyevsky's mother died of tuberculosis.Dostoyev...

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing. The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in literature.Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an imp...

Notes from Underground is widely considered the forerunner of modernist literature and one of Dostoevsky's greatest literary achievements. The novel recounts the thoughts and encounters of a civil servant known only as The Underground Man who has quit his job and lives in a basement flat on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, surviving on a small inheritance. His humiliation turns to an inward-turning aggression that further reinforces his aliena...

Long live the underground!" ¿ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground Notes from the Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky renders the story of a man who is disenchanted with society and has withdrawn into an underground existence. The unnamed narrator explains his views through a series of journal notes and fragments of his diary. The book is split into two parts. The first part is a diary kept by him describing his life which highli...

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Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld is an 1864 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a work...

Crime and Punishment is about guilt and conscience. At one point in life or other, people make mistakes they aren't proud of or wish to go back in time and change them, and that's a part of being human. It is our ability to feel genuine remorse over our bad actions and voluntarily take steps to rectify those mistakes that lead to growth and character. The book is powerful, brilliant, and insightful in its ideas, and features an immensely engag...

This book recounts the tragedy of being too good. The Idiot does not only reflect on the meaning of life and the effect of death on the living but plunges fearlessly into suffering while at the same time illuminating the enduring beauty of humanity. Accounts what a money-hungry, power-hungry, cold, and manipulative society we're living in. It speaks the truth of our striving human conditions, our emotions which only know the truth of their exi...

Dostoevsky was the son of a doctor. His parents were very hard-working and deeply religious people, but so poor that they lived with their five children in only two rooms. The father and mother spent their evenings in reading aloud to their children, generally from books of a serious character.Though always sickly and delicate Dostoevsky came out third in the final examination of the Petersburg school of Engineering. There he had already begun...

Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through an act of extreme violence: the killing of an elderly pawnbroker. His mind baulks at the horror of his plan, but when he hears that his sister Dunya is about to agre...

I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular." ¿ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky renders a wonderful plot involving erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs entailing the "wicked and sentimental" Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons-the red-cheeked young Alyosha, the coldly ratio...

About Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground "The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts that hiss and boil and suck us in. They are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn in, whirled round, blinded, suffocated, and at the same time filled with a giddy rapture. . . . Men are at the same time villains and saints, their acts are at once beautiful and despicable. . ...

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Fyodor Dostoevsky's novella Notes from the Underground (1864) is considered one of the great masterpieces of world literature. The nameless narrator, a former civil servant in mid-nineteenth-century Russia, has withdrawn into an underground existence, here he inscribes his most ascetic ruminations of the alienating constraints of society and man's self-imposing irrationality.

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostevsky tells of Raskolnikov, who has found the ideal way to escape poverty. If he robs and murders a mean-spirited pawnbroker, he’ll have money to survive and do good in the world. The scheme snowballs into a maze of desperation, guilt and madness in this undisputed masterpiece of psychological fiction.

Three brothers confront their father, and a breathtakingly rich world of human relations and ethical conflict is unveiled in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The narrative contrasts the vividly alive characters through their personal beliefs in life, love, religion and reason, in what has been acclaimed as the most vital philosophical novel ever written.

One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly." ¿ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot The Idiot (1069) by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a novel that recounts the life of Prince Myshkin, a young man of twenty who comes back to Russia after having spent the pa...

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare." ¿ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment (1867) by Fyodor Dostoevsky recounts the story of Rodion Raskolnikov, a former student living under poverty in the slums of St. Petersburg. To come out of his impoverished state, he plans to kill a corrupt pawnbroker for her money. He believes that with the money he could liberate hims...