Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1864 · Philosophical fiction
An embittered former civil servant, confined to his St. Petersburg apartment, addresses an imaginary audience with a monologue about consciousness, free will, and why intelligent people cannot act. The first great existentialist novel, written eighty years before existentialism had a name. Dark, funny, and discomforting — Dostoevsky at his most nakedly philosophical.
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Fyodor DostoevskyRussian · 1821–1881
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist whose work plunged deeper into human psychology than almost anyone before or since.
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