Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (????? ??????????? ????????????, sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky {{Audio|ru-Dostoevsky.ogg|listen}}) (November 11, (October 30, Old Style), 1821, – February 9, (January 28, O.S.), 1881, St. Petersburg, Russia) was one of the greatest of Russian writers, whose works have a profound and lasting effect on twentieth-century fiction. Often featuring characters with disparate and extreme states of the mind, his works exhibit both an uncanny grasp in human psychology as well as penetrating analyses in the politics, social and spiritual state of Russia of his time. Many of his best-known works are prophetic as precursors of modern-day thought and preoccupations. He is sometimes said to be a founder of existentialism, most notably in Notes from Underground, which has been described by Walter Kaufmann as "the best overture for existentialism ever written".

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Transliterated - November 11 - October 30 - Old Style - 1821 - February 9 - January 28 - 1881 - St. Petersburg - Russia - Russian writers - Twentieth-century - Psychology - Politics - Social - Spiritual - Existentialism - Notes from Underground - Walter Kaufmann

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