Dostoyesky's anti-hero is the the first of a long line of existential anti-heroes who followed later in the 20th century. Clearly, here is an utterly loathsome man who is alienated from his brethren by virtue of his own worldview and is victimized by it. In his sublime genius Dostoyevsky sufficie...
‘To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.’I have been giving a lot of thought to this novel lately. Despite the three years that have gone by since reading Crime and Punishment—three years in which I’ve read some outstanding literature, joined Goodreads and writt...
مدتی پیش، دوست فاضلم، حسین خلج، به شفاف سازی مسئله مهمی در «یادداشتهای زیرزمینی» داستایوفسکی پرداخت: حقارتبعد از آن نوشتار جذاب و گیرا دیگر جالب نیست من هم به این نکته بپردازم، به خصوص که حسین به جوانب متعددی پرداخته و الحق از پس نوعی «پدیدارشناسی حقارت» برآمده بود. اما با کسب اجازه از مولف(!) گم...
Dostoevsky published The Eternal Husband in 1869. This was right around the middle of the period during which he wrote almost all of the works- Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov- that casual readers will be familiar with. The Eternal Husband differs from his...
This might still be the single greatest novel of all time. I'm open to suggestions but I don't know what can top it for philsophical suggestiveness, moral rigor, influence, entertainment value, poetry, drama....Freud took the ideas of the id, ego, and super-ego from the sons of the sinister, lee...