Fyodor Dostoevsky

Portrait by [[Vasily Perov]] {{c.}} 1872 Fyodor.}} Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, ; }} (11 November 18219 February 188128 January 1881}}), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include ''Crime and Punishment'' (1866), ''The Idiot'' (1869), ''Demons'' (1872), ''The Adolescent'' (1875), and ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1880). His 1864 novella ''Notes from Underground'' is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature.

Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends, and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died in 1837 when he was 15, and around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel, ''Poor Folk'', which gained him entry into Saint Petersburg's literary circles. However, he was arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group, the Petrashevsky Circle, that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia. Dostoevsky was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile. In the following years, Dostoevsky worked as a journalist, publishing and editing several magazines of his own and later ''A Writer's Diary'', a collection of his writings. He began to travel around western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he eventually became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers.

Dostoevsky's body of work consists of thirteen novels, three novellas, seventeen short stories, and numerous other works. His writings were widely read both within and beyond his native Russia and influenced an equally great number of later writers including Russians such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov, philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre, and the emergence of Existentialism and Freudianism. His books have been translated into more than 170 languages, and served as the inspiration for many films.

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    Crimen y castigo / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

    Published 1982
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    Obras Completas(TOMO I)/ by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

    Published 1966
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    Obras Completas (TOMO II)/ by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

    Published 1964
    Book
  4. 4

    Crimen y castigo : novela en seis partes con epílogo / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,‏ 1821-1881

    Published 1977
    Book
  5. 5

    Humiliés et offensés / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,‏ 1821-1881

    Published 1968
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  6. 6

    Crimen y castigo / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,‏ 1821-1881

    Published 1984
    Book
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    Obras completas / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,‏ 1821-1881

    Published 1961
    Book
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    Los hermanos Karamazov / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,‏ 1821-1881

    Published 1983
    Book
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    El sepulcro de los vivos / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,‏ 1821-1881

    Book
  10. 10

    Obras completas / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,‏ 1821-1881

    Published 1977
    Book
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    Crime and punishment / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,‏ 1821-1881

    Book
  12. 12

    The brothers Karamazov / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,‏ 1821-1881

    Published 1990
    Book
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    The idiot / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,‏ 1821-1881

    Published 1969
    Book
  14. 14

    The idiot / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,‏ 1821-1881

    Published 1958
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  15. 15

    El eterno marido / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

    Published 1919
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    Crimen y castigo / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

    Published 1903
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    La mujer de otro / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

    Published 1944
    Book
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    Krotkaia / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

    Published 1935
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    Páginas críticas del diario de un escritor / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

    Published 1944
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    Memorias del subsuelo / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

    Published 2003
    Book