A
Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, known for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century
Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by
Walter Kaufmann the "
best overture for existentialism ever written."5 A prominent figure in world literature, Dostoyevsky is often acknowledged by critics as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature.
some Fyodor Dostoyevsky
books
Crime and Punishment, The
Brothers Karamazov, The Gambler, The Idiot, Notes from the House of the
Dead.