Fyodor dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky , born in 1821 , was a great Russian prose writer . He was born in Moscow and studied at the St Petersburg Engineering Academy . His first published work was a translation of Balzac 's Eugynie Grandet , which appeared in 1844 . Two years later his first original works , the short stories Poor Folk , The Double were published , later followed by other short prose pieces (Leatherbarrow 47-48 ) In April 1849 Dostoevsky was arrested for suspected revolutionary activity and condemned to death , or at least was taken to the scaffold and to the last

moments before execution before the true sentence of four years in prison and four years as a private in the Siberian army was read out . He was released from the army in 1858 . The result of his imprisonment was the change of his personal convictions : he rejected the socialism and progressive ideas of his early years , and instead adhered to the principles of the Russian Orthodox Church and belief in the Russian people (Lambasa et al , 2-3 ) Another immediate fruit of his imprisonment experience was his remarkable House of the Dead that appeared in 1861 . Other novels followed which display a profound understanding of the depths of the human soul . Notes from the Underground of 1864 sets rational egoism , which proffers reasons for treating others as instruments , against irrational selfishness which treats others as enemies . Crime and Punishment of 1866 , The Idiot of 1868 , and The Devils (also translated as The Possessed , written in 1871 led up to his great achievement , The Brothers Karamazov , completed in 1880 . With the Slavophils , Dostoevsky venerated the Orthodox Church , and was deeply impressed by Staretz Amvrosy whom he visited at Optina (Leatherbarrow , 169 ) But his sense of goodness was neither facile nor napve . He saw human freedom as something so awesome that most people are ready to relinquish it . This is epitomized in the Legend of the Grand Inquisitor . In his speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature Solzhenitsyn quoted Dostoevsky , `Beauty will save the world

The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoevsky 's final novel , completed only two months before his death . It was intended as Dostoevsky 's apocalypse . Its genre might best be called Scripture , rather than novel or tragedy (Bloom , 5 ) This novel is the synthesis of Dostoevsky 's religious and philosophic search . The scene of the novel is laid in a sleepy province in the family of the noble , the Karamazovs . A sleepy province had always been for Russian the source of characters of integrity pure passion and spiritual relations among people . However , Dostoevsky presents the life in such province in different light . Spiritual decay had penetrated into patriarchal up-country

From the very early stages of the novel 's writing Dostoevsky underwent several influences . The first was the profound impact the Russian philosopher and thinker Nikolai Fyodorov had on Dostoevsky at this time of his life . According to Fyodorov 's doctrine Christianity is a system in which man 's redemption and resurrection could be realized on earth through sons...