Everyone knows that Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is one of the greatest writers in the history of world literature. His works were repeatedly banned in tsarist Russia and the USSR. He was called a rebel, obscurantist and reactionary.
Admirers of talent F.M.Dostoevsky
His fans were Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Stephen King, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and many millions of other people, famous and unknown. Kurt Vonnegut put into the mouth of one of his characters a phrase that in the “Brothers Karamazov” you can read everything you need to know about life.
The list of Dostoevsky’s works is quite long. It has a place for prose and poetry, journalism, novels, and small literary forms. There is no need to list everything. In order to form your own opinion about the merits of various books of this outstanding writer, it is best to read them yourself, without first delving into the articles of critics and not listening to the advice of friends, no matter what experts they are considered to be. There is something written “in the wickedness of the day”, and to understand the plot of such essays, one should study their historical background. But the best works of Dostoevsky are devoted to eternal issues, and are outside the time frame.
Scripture code
In every novel written by Fyodor Mikhailovich, according to one of the leading theosophists, the Gospel is encrypted. The list of Dostoevsky’s works begins with the novel Poor People, first published in 1846. The touching story of the sacrificial and reckless love of a modest titular adviser Makar Alekseevich Devushkin to Varenka is set out in an epistolary form. The official’s letters are full of tenderness and despair, it’s simply impossible to read them and not sympathize with their author.
The theme "alter ego", that is, the second "I", is rigidly held in the story "Double". A profound analysis of the psyche of the character in which two entities are fighting is so characteristic of all subsequent heroes of this writer.
F. M. Dostoevsky - the author of detectives?
Not everyone knows that Fedor Mikhailovich was a poet and publicist. And yet, strangely enough, he wrote detective stories. Yes, because the criminal storyline is so characteristic of his work. Of course, it is impossible to enclose them in a narrow Procrustean bed of this literary genre ; they do not fit into any established “format” frameworks, but still there is much in common.
Almost all the works of Dostoevsky are saturated with the characters of criminals, fraudsters and simply villains . The list of them is long, this is the blackmailer Lambert from The Teenager, and Stebelkov, who is also a radical. Next comes the murderer Rodion Raskolnikov, and after him the man who didn’t chop people with an ax, but no less terrible Luzhin from the same “Crime and Punishment”.
The fascinating plot of the novel “The Brothers Karamazov” leads to an unexpected exposure of Smerdyakov, a bouilller and footman, who is almost impossible to suspect of a murder due to the lack of a visible motive. Another character, Rakitin, gave vent to the hatred of the author for the type of unscrupulous mess, flaunting liberal convictions in his literary opuses, and at the same time capable of any meanness.
The list of Dostoevsky’s works on criminal subjects will be incomplete if it omits the novel “Demons,” written in 1871-1872 and practically unfamiliar to the Soviet reader because of its ban. Verkhovensky’s image with terrifying realism demonstrates the essence of the emerging Russian social democracy and the full cynicism of the Narodnik ideology, which finally came to Bolshevism.
Read Dostoevsky!
Yes, the list of Dostoevsky’s works is long, there are feuilleton notes, satirical and humorous stories, and even science fiction, at least a genre understood as such by the author. To comprehend what was written by a great writer, a certain level of intelligence is required, but even if it exists, novels and novels should be re-read from time to time. Each time something new is magically discovered in them. But mental and mental efforts are more than rewarded. It is difficult to imagine anything more fascinating than these books.