What’s your favourite novel from Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky?
What’s your favourite novel from Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky?
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What’s your favourite novel from Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky?
I’ve only read the brothers K and Crime and Punishment so far, and I would say the brothers K just edges it, but they’re both brilliant.
David Jack I’ll start to read Crime and Punishment this Friday. I love russian literature, especially Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol and Gorky.
@Jan-Hendrik I haven’t tried Gogol or Gorky yet, but I’ve read Tolstoy’s War and peace and Anna Karenina, as well as a handful of his short stories. Love him as well as Dostoevsky. Russian literature is perhaps second only to Scottish literature for me (though I do greatly enjoy English lit like Dickens and the Bronte sisters too.)
Shaji Rajan well I can tell you that some of the most famous Scottish authors are Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Kidnapped and The Master of Ballantrae and Sir Walter Scott, author of Waverley and The Heart of Midlothian, John Buchan, J M Barrie and the poet Robert Burns. My own speciality is George MacDonald, a minister turned novelist, who is the grandfather of the modern fantasy genre, and the man C S Lewis (author of the Chronicles of Narnia) called his “master”. I translate MacDonald’s Scottish novels from broad Scots into English.
Demons
Crime and Punishment is the only novel of his that I’ve read and I absolutely loved it.
You mean Fyodor Dostoevsky?
My favorites are Notes from Underground, and The Gambler.
Crime and Punishment, by far!
Crime and Punishment, without a doubt!
Crime and Punishment. Not sure if the stories about Dostoevsky are true, but I always loved the one about how when he would start making money from his writing he’d purposely go on an epic gambling and drinking bender and blow all his earnings so he’d be poor and desperate enough to push himself to write another book.
I liked The Double and The Village of Stepanchikovo
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
I’ve read them all but The Idiot is my favorite
The Brothers
Simply the best writer I have ever read. I’ve got his complete works in 33 volume.The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment is my favorite.
Crime and Punishment has been a favorite since high school.
Crime and Punishment is great. So is the Brothers Karamazov
Crime And Punishment.
I read only 1 so far & loved it – Crime & Punishment
The idiot
Crime and punishment
crime and punishment
Have read only crime and punishment and I love it
The Possessed
Brothers Karamazov and Crime & Punishment
I was a Russian major, and I don’t like the big D at all.