![]() ![]() His perfectly drawn psychological portraits of common people in distress resonate with all readers who struggle to find meaning in the world. Modern readers continue to find Dostoevsky's work compelling because of the way he examines, as no one had previously and few have since, the potential for violence and the abuse of power in all forms of human interaction. However, Dostoevsky's work is much more than a window into the world of nineteenth-century Russia. His personal and literary engagement with the ongoing political and social issues of his time makes his work particularly interesting from a historical perspective. He chronicled the rise and fall of the modern secular individual and traced the totalitarian potential of the new ideologies of his time, including socialism. In his masterworks Crime and Punishment (1866) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), he explored the far-ranging moral, religious, psychological, social, political, and artistic ramifications of the breakdown of traditional structures of authority and belief. ![]() ![]() Works in Biographical and Historical ContextĪmong European writers of the nineteenth century, Fyodor Dostoevsky is the preeminent novelist of modernity. ![]()
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