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He began to travel around western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he eventually became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers.

His writings were widely read both within and beyond his native Russia and influenced an equally great number of later writers including Russians like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov as well as philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre. His books have been translated into more than languages. Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers, is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is mur It is a murder story, told from a murder;s point of view, that implicates even the most innocent reader in its enormities.

It is a cat-and-mouse game between a tormented young killer and a cheerful The Idiot is a novel written by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky and first published in It was first published serially in Russian in Russky Vestnik, St. Petersburg, The Idiot The Possessed is an novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Though titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles The Devils or Demon Friends Votes.

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A Writer's Diary by Fyodor Dostoevsky 3. White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4. The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky 3. Suddenly he was a literary sensation. Literally overnight. Well, he fell out with those friends quite quickly, and ended up in a second literary circle, which was more dangerous and plotting revolution… basically he fell in with the wrong crowd.

He was caught, sentenced to death, subjected to a mock execution and sent off for years of hard labour in Siberia.

So he was out there in the freezing cold, pounding alabaster and breaking up barges for several years. That guy also died of alcoholism, so he married her — but they had a deeply unhappy marriage. He managed to get back to St Petersburg, where he wrote these amazing memoirs of his time in prison, which became a total sensation and rehabilitated his literary reputation.

Five Books interviews are expensive to produce. If you're enjoying this interview, please support us by donating a small amount. From there he was well-known and well-respected as a writer, pretty much until the end of his life.

But his personal life was still very choppy. He had an affair with a young student called Polina, and ran away to Europe with her—but she was just stringing him along. He became a gambling addict, lost all his money and his beloved brother died. They went on to have four children, although two of them died.

In the s, he developed emphysema and his health worsened, but at least he was happy in love for that last decade of his life. So, yes. Pretty eventful. Writers are generally known for being sat at their desks writing for most of the time. I think he bucks the trend. You chose to call your book Dostoevsky in Love. Can you tell us a little about that decision? We all have the capacity to do either. He really wanted to foster the instinct for love in his readers.

The next book you want to recommend is Memoirs from the House of the Dead , by Dostoevsky himself. There are incredible scenes — my favourite is a bathhouse scene, in a traditional Russian steam room. Grime is washing off them onto the people crouching below. And as they slap themselves with the birch twigs, you see all the scars from their various lashings and other corporal punishments getting redder and redder.

That scene will stay with you forever. Could you talk more about these commonalities? Even his first biographers noted that there were very close relations between his life and some of the subjective passages scattered through his fiction. Other academics have noted that he made use of his life experience, mobilising it as a way of showing his authenticity. Most biographies will walk up to the line of fiction and talk about influence but are unwilling to overtly pick from the fiction events that appear to be resonant with his life experience.

But there are so many clear parallels to his life. I suppose what I was interested in was trying to be faithful to his patterns of thinking. His fiction is one way to gain that insight. Well sure. Anna was vital in securing his legacy after he died.

And it was Anna who was the love of his life. She was a stenographer so she wrote in shorthand, which meant she was writing a lot of these notes in real time, with Dostoevsky in the same room.

But their love for each other is genuinely really touching. And he meets this young girl. I mean, does anyone love anyone for their riches? Anyway, eventually he says it. What would you say? Terribly romantic. And what about the book that brought them together? The Gambler. Did it pay off his debts?