Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian short story writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature. His works are broadly thought to have anticipated Russian symbolism, existentialism, expressionism, and psychoanalysis. He also influenced later writers and philosophers including Anton Chekov, Hermann Hesse, Ernest Hemingway, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Jean-Paul Sartre. His books have been translated into more than one hundred and seventy languages. Patrick Maxwell is an English writer and journalist. He writes on literature for The Big Issue and The London Magazine, and is a regular commentator for TheArticle magazine and Classical Music Daily. He lives near Oxford.
"The only psychologist from whom I had something to
learn...[Dostoevsky] ranks amongst the most beautiful strokes of
fortune in my life." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"He is the man more than any other who has created modern prose,
and intensified it to its present-day pitch." -James Joyce
"Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading." -Virginia
Woolf
"His psychologic sense is overwhelming and visionary." -Knut
Hamsun
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