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Questions regarding the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), the Russian journalist and author of such works as 'Crime and Punishment' (1866), 'The Idiot' (1868–1869) and 'The Brothers Karamazov' (1879–1880). Use this tag with the tag [russian-language].
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Why did the star give the idea of suicide in "The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man" by Fyodor Dostoevsky?
In The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, there is this quote:
As I was thinking about the gas lamps in the street I looked up at the sky. The sky was horribly dark, but one ...
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Dostoevsky on Tyutchev
I read that Dostoevsky was the first one to call Tyutchev "a poet-philosopher", but no sources were given. Can you cite a reference where Dostoevsky called him that?
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Why does Raskolnikov tell Sonia that he'd long planned to tell her about Lizaveta's murder, when that murder had been unplanned?
In Part IV, Chapter IV of Crime and Punishment, the conversation between Raskolnikov and Sonia contains the following:
"If I come tomorrow, I'll tell you who killed Lizaveta . . . Good-bye.”
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Why is murder not death?
In the, Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, the literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin opines that:
In Dostoevsky there are considerably fewer deaths than in Tolstoy-and
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Significance of different characters with the same name across Dostoevsky’s Novels
I just finished reading The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and there was one thing that I couldn’t help noticing with the names of some of the characters. In particular, the character of General Ivan ...
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Dostoyevsky's shift from witness to omniscient narrator in *The Devils*
I find it quite surprising from the structural point of view of the novel that in the first part and up to some few sections of the second part of The Devils Dostoyevsky's narrator is fully a witness ...
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What does the encounter with Lizaveta in Part 1 Chapter 5 of Crime and Punishment mean?
In this chapter after having his dream, Raskolnikov seemed to abandon his murder plan for his conscience started to awake, and he even prayed to God. But why did Dostoevsky make Raskolnikov overhear ...
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Are there any notes on the plot of Netochka Nezvanova?
I just finished reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s work Netochka Nezvanova, and I am left a bit sad that it is over. Primarily since I want to know how the book ends, I am aware that Dostoevsky never ...
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"There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings" — where does this Dostoyevsky quote come from?
I read Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning and he quoted Fyodor Dostoevsky as follows:
Dostoevski said once, "There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings."
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Crime and Punishment - what's with the smiles?
In Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, there is always this repeating motif of "smiling", a facial practice that Raskolnikov does a lot of.
"poisonous smile"
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What does Dostoyevsky's character's statement about Permissiveness mean for Morality in Western Civilization?
One of Western civilizations most important and well-respected piece of literature is The Brothers Karamazov by Feodor Dostoyevsky. Among other important religious issues, Dostoyevsky has one of his ...
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Locating a quote in Dostoevsky's The Idiot
I am trying to locate this quote that I came across. I believe it was spoken by Aglaya (or Nastasya?) in The Idiot, but I'm having trouble locating it:
“I want to talk about everything with at least ...
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"Hamlet" reference in "Crime and Punishment": translator's invention?
I am reading Pevear & Volokhonsky's translation of Crime and Punishment. In part II, chapter 6, Raskolnikov is at the "Crystal Palace" restaurant, where he runs into the clerk Zamyotov ...
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What is the significance of the money given to Liza in Notes from Underground?
At the end of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, the following occurs (from Wikipedia):
After all this, he still acts terribly toward her, and, before she
leaves, he stuffs a five ruble note ...
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What is the difference between romanticism and existentialism?
It seems existentialism and romanticism are both literary movements which (1) see a man as irrational, and (2) search for meaning in an individual's life. Can we say that these movements are ...
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