Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dostoyevsky is considered to be one of the most important figures in world literature. His writings are concerned with human thought, beliefs and behaviour. Both psychologically and historically Dostoyevsky is a very complex figure. It is necessary to distinguish not only between the various periods of his life and the various currents of his mind, but between the different levels of his personality. The deeper, the essential Dostoyevsky is one of the most significant and ominous figures in the whole history of human mind, one of its boldest and most disastrous adventures in the sphere of ultimate spiritual quest. For the profundity, complexity and the significance of his spiritual experience Dostoyevsky has only one possible rival in the whole range of Russian literature – Tolstoy. For Dostoyevsky all relative values are related to absolute values and received their significance, positive or negative, from the way they reflected the higher values.
Even in their most purely spiritua...