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Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. 1821-1881. Born in Moscow Mother loving and religious Father strict, violent alcoholic who was educated as a doctor and as nobility could own serfs. Father murdered and castrated and choked with liquor by serfs. First novel.

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Dostoevsky

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  1. Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment

  2. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

  3. 1821-1881 • Born in Moscow • Mother loving and religious • Father strict, violent alcoholic who was educated as a doctor and as nobility could own serfs. • Father murdered and castrated and choked with liquor by serfs

  4. First novel • D educated in School of Military Engineers in Petersburg • D hailed as “New Gogol” by Belinsky in 1845 after writing POOR FOLK • PF showed D’s emphasis on psychological awareness of inner workings of mind

  5. Radical D • 1847-1849 D belonged to several socialist circles including “Petrashevsky circle” • They read French Socialist Fourier and discussed socialism and criticism of the current government • Set up secret printing press to circulate anti government literature

  6. Prison • 1849 –arrested with several others for circulation of anti orthodox and anti government lit • Condemned to death by firing squad • First group already dead when sentence was changed to four years of hard labor and subsequent service in the army

  7. Labor Camp • Later wrote about labor camp in Notes from the House of the Dead • Labor camp is where D experienced a religious and philosophical conversion • Rejected progressive ideas of his youth and converted to Russian Orthodoxy and aggressive right wing journalist • Came down with epilepsy

  8. Slavophile • Part of Slavophile revival • Targeted Jews, Poles, Germans, Catholics, Socialism, and entire West • Believed in necessity of suffering • Strong will = criminality, humility = humanity • Russia better than any nation • Russia only ones who understand Christianity

  9. Laissez faire – change of heart • Why? • Environmental determinism: conflict and separation between classes is ineviatlbe • Revolutionaryism is pointless since life and writing would be impossible • Ideological: political systems do not necessarily affect private life, don’t matter to one personally

  10. Conservatism • Changed belief about man – • Used to believe man was rational and correctable • Now views man as someone whose goal in life was to accept suffering and humbling • Believes people should be humble, passive, feel unworthy and guilty • Sinful to be satisfied, proud, or happy

  11. Most famous novels • Crime and Puhishment 1866 • The Idiot 1867 • The Possessed 1871 • The Brothers Karamazov 1879

  12. Hard Times • Brother and wife both died and he took on all of their debts • Gambling problem • Married secretary who then typed all of his manuscripts • Hid abroad from creditors for four years • Later had four kids and settled down

  13. The End • Died of lung hemorrhage in St Petersburg at 59 in 1881 • Considered Russia’s greatest writer at death • Today considered one of the world’s greatest writers

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