Man of the Day: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Who was Dostoyevsky?
One of the greatest personalities of Russian literature, is considered the creator of Existentialism (Existentialism considers each man as one who is master of his acts and his destiny).
What sound the main features of his works?
Dostoevsky's work explores the self-destruction, humiliation and murder, and analyzing disease states that lead to suicide, madness and murder: his writings are called by this "novels of ideas," the portrayal of these timeless philosophical and situations. The literary modernism and various schools of theology and psychology have been influenced by his ideas.
Who were your influences?
Edgar Allan Poe, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy.
Who were influential by Dostoyevsky?
Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Yukio Mishima, Sigmund Freud and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
What are the main works?
The Idiot and Crime and Punishment, were considered by many as one of the most famous works of world literature. Since, The Brothers Karamazov, was considered by Sigmund Freud as the best novel ever written.
Some of his quotes:
"I must proclaim my disbelief. For me there is nothing higher than the idea of no God. Man invented God in order to live without killing. "
"In the eyes of the artist, the public is a necessary evil, we must overcome it, nothing more."
"There is no subject so old that can not be told something new about him."
"Life is a paradise, but men do not know and do not care to hear it."
"Love is the master, but you need to know buy it because it gets difficult, the price of a prolonged effort, one must love, in fact, not for a moment, but until the end."
"I do not know if God created man or man created the God."
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I never read Dostoyevsky ... = /
Um, I have a folder with the ebooks it. It has a very good story as well: "white roses".
I have two books I've never read it, but I intend to soon. It is the Player and the Idiot. Are they good?
Um, those guys have not read, but I've seen enough comments that are very good. Idiot is still better known. I was reading Crime and Punishment.