This Russian writer left behind an impressive work that still has an impact on the world today more than 100 years after his death.
Dostoevsky was inspired by the lower class and high society, having connections in both. He was inspired by his life and by the more or less personal relationships he had with his few friends or acquaintances, but especially by the ones that stimulated him to write, the relationships with the loves of his life.
He loved passionately, was loved or not, but continued to write works with fervor and as only just him he could do it. Among the works that consecrated him, we could name: Demons, The Adolescent, The Idiot, Memories from the House of the Dead or The Brothers Karamazov.
In this post we will talk about 3 novels namely The Idiot, The Teenager and The Demons.
The Idiot is the story of a Russian prince suffering from epilepsy and returning from treatment from a distant country. He falls in love and has some adventures in his native Russia.
The charm of old Russian life is valued here, and through his eyes we can see it as well. Through the way the idiot wrote, Dostoevsky paints a clear picture of the feelings and the way things were going in the past. The story has an unexpected ending, typical of his style from that time he wrote the novel.
The Teenager is the story of a teenager trying to win his father’s admiration. The teenager slowly discovers the world and the concrete miseries of adult life. It is a book worth reading.
When we talk about Demons, we could quote Lev Șestov who says: If Darwin had seen life through Dostoevsky’s eyes, he would not have talked about the preservation of species, but about their destruction. Demons is a novel that, as the Los Angeles Times says…he wrote for our times.