The special importance Russians have traditionally assigned to literature has conferred on writers a mythic aura. All three recognize the difficulty of distinguishing Dostoevsky’s actual life from the legends about him. (A third volume is still to come.) The novelist Alex Christofi was similarly inspired, and while his innovative biography, Dostoevsky in Love, occasionally intrigues, it ultimately offers little that’s new. The many fascinating primary sources about Dostoevsky’s life inspired Thomas Marullo to experiment with a new kind of biography in his brilliant Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism. How should one narrate the life of a great writer? Joseph Frank’s five-volume biography of Dostoevsky, now supplemented by his Lectures on Dostoevsky, revivified the form by situating the novelist within the ideological struggles of his day. 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). 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. As such, he is also looked upon as a philosoph Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist.
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