Dostoievsky: An Interpretation by Nikolai Berdyaev. Short summary

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F.M. Dostoevsky is the most Russian writer. He looks at life, people, faith, and politics philosophically. In his work he uses mechanisms that have long been a mystery to critics.

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F.M. Dostoevsky is not just an artist. He is a thinker and a philosopher. His ideas live their own active life. They are constantly in motion and development, there is no place for ossification and quiescence. His world is special, different from Plato’s worldview. The main driving energy here are ideas.

For a long time for traditional criticism Dostoevsky’s work was closed, remained a mystery. Only at the beginning of the twentieth century were those minds born that were similar to the writer in spirit and attitude to life. Every author is deeply national Dostoevsky is the most Russian of all the writers who ever created on this earth. He is a Russian genius who is striking in his humanity and his love of the people. His work is like a volcanic eruption.

Dostoevsky considered himself a realist. But all creativity is symbolic. It builds a bridge between worlds. In his works real attitudes toward God, the character and fate of the characters. But the events described by the author, sometimes impossible to relate to reality.