Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature. Dostoevsky's oeuvre consists of 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short stories and numerous other works. His most acclaimed works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. "The Grand Inquisitor" is an important part of the novel and one of the best-known passages in modern literature because of its ideas about human nature and freedom, and its fundamental ambiguity.įyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. It is recited by Ivan Karamazov, who questions the possibility of a personal and benevolent God, to his brother Alexei (Alyosha), a novice monk. He died on 9th February 1881."The Grand Inquisitor" is a poem (a story within a story) inside Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). In the following years he published his most enduring and successful books, including Crime and Punishment (1865). His wife died in 1864 and he married Anna Grigoryeva Snitkina.
In the following years he spent a lot of time abroad, struggled with an addiction to gambling and fell deeply in debt. After his release he adopted more conservative and traditional values and rejected his previous socialist position.
In 1857 he married Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva. His 1860 book, The House of the Dead was based on these experiences. After a mock-execution his sentence was commuted to hard labour in Siberia where he developed epilepsy.He was released in 1854.
His first book, Poor Folk, did very well but on 23rd April 1849 he was arrested for subversion and sentenced to death. He graduated from the St Petersburg Academy of Military Engineering in 1846 but decided to change careers and become a writer. He had six siblings and his mother died in 1837 and his father in 1839. Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow on 11th November 1821.
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