Petersburg, where he was admitted to the Army Engineering College. In 1837, shortly following the death of his mother, Dostoevsky was sent to St. He was educated at home and then at a private school in Moscow with Mikhail, his older brother. This fact accounts possibly for Dostoevsky’s often filling his remarkable novels with characters who seem to have opposite extremes of character. That tension – between forgiving love and harsh judgment – would be Dostoevsky’s life’s theme, which recurred throughout his major works. On ther other hand, Dostoevsky’s mother was the opposite – generous, kind and passive – and who provided unconditional love to her son. Dostoevsky’s father was a stern and ‘self’ righteous man who held his second son to rigorous standards.
2 years later his mother died and his father, a cruel man, got murdered in 1839, when Dostoevsky was 18 and attending school in St. Dostoevsky was first educated by his father, mother, and tutors, but at thirteen years old Dostoevsky was sent to a private school. He started reading books widely when he was a youth. His father, an army doctor, was a member of the Russian nobility and owned serfs and owned a considerable estate near Moscow wherein he lived together with his family. His family being very religious, made Dostoevsky lead a deeply religious life. His parents had remarkably different characters.
Existentialism, literary modernism, and various schools of theology, psychology, and literary criticism were profoundly shaped by his ideas.įyodor Mikhailevich Dostoevsky, Russia’s greatest novelist, was born in Moscow’s Hospital for the Poor on 30th October, 1821, as the second of 7 children of Maria Dostoevsky and Mikhail Andreevich. He has since been praised all around the world as a writer and is best known for writing novels which had a great understanding of psychology (study of how the human-mind works), in particular the psychology of people who, after losing their reason, would commit murder or become insane. The Russian novelist was well-known in his country during his life. has gone out of his mind, means that we are sane now." No, it doesn't mean that yet.Regarded as one of the finest novelists to ever live, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was also renowned for his activities as a journalist.
I remember a witty Spaniard saying when, two hundred and fifty years ago, the French built their first madhouses: "They have shut up all their fools in a house apart, to make sure that they are wise men themselves." Just so: you don't show your own wisdom by shutting some one else in a madhouse. And they have so muddled things up that there is no telling a fool from a wise man.
In old days, once a year at any rate a fool would recognise that he was a fool, but nowadays not a bit of it. The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool - a faculty unheard of nowadays. So it seems the critics can call them mad, but they cannot produce any one better. Well, but after all, these so-called madmen have turned out cleverer than ever. "however, one ought to have foreseen it long ago." That is rather artful so that from the point of view of pure art one may really commend it. And in such language! "With such original talent". "Bobok : From Somebody's Diary" as translated by Constance Garnett in Short Stories (1900) Ĭontext: A great many people were put down as mad among us last year.
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