Dostoevsky

Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment

The great psychologist of the novel. He pushed fiction into the darkest corners of consciousness — guilt, faith, nihilism, the will to destruction — with an intensity that makes most other novelists seem genteel. The Brothers Karamazov is the novel as theodicy.

Key works

• The Brothers Karamazov1880— God, free will, the Grand Inquisitor
• Crime and Punishment1866— Murder and redemption
• The Idiot1869— Can a good man survive the world?

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