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".

External links and references

• FyodorDostoevsky.com - The Definitive Dostoevsky fan site
• Fyodor Dostoevsky's brief biography and works
• Project Gutenberg e-texts of some of Fyodor Dostoevsky's works
• Selected Dostoevsky e-texts from Penn Librarys digital library project
• Full texts of some Dostoevsky's works in the original Russian
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Biography, ebooks, quotations, and other resources
• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Vintage Classics, 1992, New York.
• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, introduction by Joseph Frank. Bantam Books, 1987, New York.
• Some photos of places and statues that are reminiscent of Dostoevsky and his work