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Fyodor Dostoevsky. Portrait bi
Vasily Perov
, 1872
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
(
Roushie
: Фёдор Миха?йлович Достое?вский,
Fedor Mihajlovi? Dostoevskij
, whiles
transliteratit
Dostoyevsky
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) (
11 November
,
1821
(30 October, auld style) ?
9 Februar
,
1881
(28 Januar, auld style) wis a
Roushie
writer
. Mony fowk see him as ane o the greatest o
Roushie writers
. His works hae haed a big effect on
twentieth-century
fiction
. Very eften, he wrote aboot characters who bide in pair conditions. Those characters are whiles in extreme states o mind. Thay might show baith a strange grasp o human
psychology
as well as guid
analyses
o the
poleetical
,
social
an
speeritual
states o Roushie o Dostoevsky's time. Mony o his best-kent works are
prophetic
. He is whiles considered tae be a foonder o
existentialism
, maist frequently for
Notes frae Unnerground
, which haes been describit bi
Walter Kaufmann
as
the best overture for existentialism ever written
. He is an aa famous for writin
The Brothers Karamazov
, which mony critics hae suggestit ane o the best novels ever written.
[
citation needit
]
The last five stories (1873-1877) are included in
A Writer's Diary
.
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