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Dostoevsky underground5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Enlightenment with its promise that modern science would conquer nature as well as the notion of the perfection of human nature captured the allegiance of young Russian radicals of the period. What may surprise readers of Notes from Underground, written in 1864, is its sardonic edge and philosophical bite. ![]() After being spared from the Tsar’s firing squad at the last minute, years in a Siberian gulag, and a life plagued by epilepsy, he went on to write some of the greatest psychological and existential novels in all of World literature, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. It is perhaps no surprise that Fyodor Dostoevsky is known as one of the greatest psychological writers of all time, given his own dramatic history of suffering. By Stephen Miller and Thomas Johnson, revised by Joe Phelan Introduction ![]()
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