Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground and its narrator are just about impossible really to understand without some knowledge of the intellectual ... elevated aesthetics to the level of ...

A scholar concludes almost 50 years of biographical research with a final volume that reveals the novelist’s dark sideLater this month, when Princeton University Press publishes the fifth volume ...

Painter Vasily Perov’s portrait of Dostoevsky in 1872, twenty-four years after White Nights. Photo: ... the aesthetic emerged in 2020 with the onset of COVID-19 and lockdown forcing school closures.

Dostoevsky writes in an incarnational aesthetic that brings us face-to-face with the God who is both higher than us and born in a manger among the lowest of creatures.

When Dostoevsky wrote that for man to be saved it was necessary that he should believe in the Russian God, ... It’s the aesthetic principle, as the philosophers call it, ...

A common suffering. Dostoevsky was the only 19th-century Russian writer to be sentenced to hard labor, spending four years in a Siberian camp. As fortune – or misfortune – would have it, when ...

No other Russian writer of Dostoevsky's stature could equal the range of his familiarity with both the depths and heights of Russian society—a range that included four years spent as a convict ...

Poor People A Novel Fyodor Dostoevsky Translated from the Russian by Hugh Aplin Hesperus Press: 138 pp., $12 paper Dostoevsky's early genius - Los Angeles Times ...

At the outset of “Dostoevsky in Love,” he sets out his methodology (“some ground rules”). Quotation marks signal lines taken directly from Dostoevsky or a contemporary.