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Dostoevsky



I read Poor People. It was his first book, and conveys the sort of desperate plight of poor people. It is an epistolary novel. 

I like his kind of "person on the verge of a nervous breakdown" kind of writing, people on the edge. It's kind of gothic. 

His biography could be a novel. Dostoevsky was saved the last minute in a firing squad like it happens in his novels. He was sent to Siberia. He was married twice, his second wife outlived him.



Links:

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881) (Wikipedia)

Dostoevsky 8 episode series in Russian with subtitles (Amazon Prime)

The Idiot (YouTube)

14 minute video biography (YouTube)

Professor Jordan Peterson (YouTube)

Dostoevsky Studies Journal

Dostoevsky Society

Dostoevsky in Saint Petersburg

Complete Books

Can Dostoevsky Still Kick You in the Gut? by David Denby in the New Yorker 2012.

Irwin Weil on Dostoevsky

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