Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Here's a quote from C&P which caught my attention:
This excerpt is, from what I've seen, just a taste of the brilliance of Dostoevsky and only proves Friedrich Nietzsche's claim that "[Dostoevsky] is the only psychologist I have anything to learn from." What do you guys think?Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote:In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truthlike and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.
I also recently bought a few more of his works, including Poor Folk, Notes from Underground, The Double, and The House of the Dead. Has anyone read any of these works? Or perhaps The Brothers Karamazov or the The Idiot (which I also own)? If so, what did you think about them?
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I enjoy his short stories immensely and i'm looking forward to reading more of his work.
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I don't think I would have ever picked it up otherwise and what a shame that would have been. I haven't read it recently, but I'm so glad to see that the book of the month is another Dostoyevsky that I have not had the pleasure of reading yet. I'm going to have to pick up another copy of Crime and Punishment. Thanks for the great idea!
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Well I happen to love Friedrich Nietzsche and Dostoevsky.Dori wrote:Recently, along with the other books that I'm reading, I decided to pick up Crime and Punishment (by Dostoevsky, of course). I just finished Part I, and it is an amazing read thus far. Has anyone else read this?
Here's a quote from C&P which caught my attention:
This excerpt is, from what I've seen, just a taste of the brilliance of Dostoevsky and only proves Friedrich Nietzsche's claim that "[Dostoevsky] is the only psychologist I have anything to learn from." What do you guys think?Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote:In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truthlike and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.
I also recently bought a few more of his works, including Poor Folk, Notes from Underground, The Double, and The House of the Dead. Has anyone read any of these works? Or perhaps The Brothers Karamazov or the The Idiot (which I also own)? If so, what did you think about them?
I read the book, Dostoevsky kicks some literary ass, period.
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Yeah. The Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translations have given me a fresh perpective on Big D. I used to think he was a very clumsy writer and now I think he's... not as clumsy.colonel1 wrote:that passage is fantastic, the translator deserves some credit fot it too
Some things about him really bother me. In Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky reminds us that every life has a value and cannot be extinguished... even an old, stingy Jew! Thanks, Fyodor. You're so spiritual. (check out his Notebooks for even more overt anti-Semitism, which he expresses with pride)
Lots of foot stamping, I've noticed. Also, the air in Moscow must've been terrible, because characters faint with alarming frequency (and at the most convenient times, too).
Still, Freud was influenced by Doestoevsky as well as Freddy N. Petty impressive. Good thinker (usually), okay writer.
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