I was curious about this Russian writer. I had started reading his work, but I didn’t understand him the way you need to understand him to study his work. And sum it up in the end.
I found a book with his biography but that didn’t tell me much. So, I probed for events in his life. Somehow, I had to fully understand him. Or at least as much as possible.
So, I found this book, The Intimate Life of Dostoevsky, written by T. Enko. It is a book more about his loves, about his passionate loves, about the women in his life.
The book tells us more about how this man was formed as a writer through the events he experienced. He dealt with pedophiles, rapists, criminals, and the lowest kind of people. He often encountered greedy, unethical, unjust people.
Loves inspired him, gave him creative force and inspiration. Without them, without his critical-psychoanalytical-deep spirit, he would not have been able to leave behind a vast work, full of Christian elements, full of signs of the fullest understanding of human nature.