As such, he is also looked upon as a philosopher and theologian as well. His 1864 novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as multiple of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Martinsen demonstrates how Dostoevsky first plunges the. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. Crime and Punishment: A Readers Guide focuses on narrative strategy, psychology, and ideology. As such, he is also looked upon as a philosoph Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist.
His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws and our agonised awareness of the world's harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality.Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder.įrom that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime.
Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written.
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