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Existentialism
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881)
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Novels
Bednyye lyudi (1846; Poor Folk, 1894)
Dvoynik (1846; The Double, 1917)
Netochka Nezvanova (1849; Nyetochka Nyezvanov, 1920)
Dyadyushkin Son (1859; Uncle's Dream, 1888)
Selo Stepanchikovo i yego obitateli (1859; The Friend of the
Family, 1887)
Zapiski iz myortvogo doma (1861–62; Buried Alive; or,
Ten Years of Penal Servitude in Siberia, 1881, better known
as The House of the Dead)
Unizhennyye i oskorblyonnyye (1861; Injury and Insult, 1886,
better known as The Insulted and Injured)
Zimniye zametki o letnikh vpechatleniyakh (1863; Winter Notes
on Summer Impressions, 1955)
Zapiski iz podpolya (1864; Letters from the Underworld, 1913,
better known as Notes from the Underground)
Prestupleniye i nakazaniye (1866; Crime and Punishment, 1886)
Igrok (1866; The Gambler, 1887)
Idiot (1868–69; The Idiot, 1887)
Vechny muzh (1870; The Permanent Husband, 1888, better known
as The Eternal Husband)
Besy (1872; The Possessed, 1913)
Dnevnik pisatelya (1873–74, 1876–77, 1880, 1881;
The Diary of a Writer, 1949)
Podrostok (1875; A Raw Youth, 1916)
Bratya Karamazovy (1879–80; The Brothers Karamazov, 1912).
Short stories
“Krotkaya” (1876; “The Gentle Maiden,”
1913, also known as “The Meek One”)
“Son smeshnogo cheloveka” (1877; “The Dream
of a Queer Fellow,” 1916, better known as “The Dream
of a Ridiculous Man”).
Additional reading
Biography
Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821–1849
(1976), Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850–1859 (1983),
Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860–1865 (1986),
and Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865–1871 (1995)
Leonid Grossman, Dostoevsky (1974; originally published in
Russian, 2nd ed., 1965)
Jessie Coulson, Dostoevsky: A Self-Portrait (1962, reprinted
1975)
Criticism
Konstantin Mochulsky, Dostoevsky: His Life and Work (1967;
originally published in Russian, 1947)
Edward Wasiolek, Dostoevsky: The Major Fiction (1964)
Michael Holquist, Dostoevsky and the Novel (1977, reissued
1986)
Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, ed. and
trans. by Caryl Emerson (1984; originally published in Russian,
2nd ed., rev. and enlarged, 1963)
Nicholas Berdyaev, Dostoievsky, trans. by Donald Attwater
(1934, reissued 1974; originally published in Russian, 1923)
Lev Shestov, “Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Philosophy
of Tragedy,” in his Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche
(1969), pp. 141–332. Donald Fanger, Dostoevsky and Romantic
Realism: A Study of Dostoevsky in Relation to Balzac, Dickens,
and Gogol (1965, reissued 1974), places Dostoyevsky in the
context of European literature. On Dostoyevsky's obsessions
and creative process, an outstanding, if diffuse, work is
Jacques Catteau, Dostoyevsky and the Process of Literary Creation
(1989). The best study of Dostoyevsky's aesthetics is
Robert Louis Jackson, Dostoevsky's Quest for Form: A Study
of His Philosophy of Art, 2nd ed. (1978), Robin Feuer Miller,
The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel (1992); and then
turn to
Robert L. Belknap, The Structure of The Brothers Karamazov
(1967, reprinted 1989)
Ce
qu'on fait n'est jamais compris mais seulement loué ou blâmé.
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