The novelist has gained much popularity for influencing the Western cultures by the power of his writings. He holds his own world when it comes to literature.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Russian novelist has gained much popularity for influencing the Western cultures by the power of his writings. He holds his own world when it comes to literature.
Fyodor Dostoevsky works majorly on the genre of Psychology, paradoxical nature of humans, and pens the tragic life experiences with morals in the best possible ways. He has given the wonders in the form of his books. On the number one, the highest ranked book of Fyodor is “Crime and Punishment”.
The Statements that Makes the Book an Amazing and Must Read
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
Explanation: In this statement Fyodor Dostoevsky talks about the aura and the energy that a person sometimes gets from a complete stranger. Humans regard someone as the perfect stranger, it means this is where when we don’t even need words, an individual gets into the person with just sight.
“I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.”
Explanation: In our daily lives, every individual faces anxiousness and anxiety. The author here describes how comparison and comparing himself with other beings has led him to despair. In this statement, he also gives a moral but in the roots, he shares his self doubt and anxiety.
“We’re always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can’t help feeling that that’s what it is.”
Explanation: Dostoevsky states that as a human being, eternity is the concept that is hard to understand and then suddenly questions what if eternity is grimy, and leaves it on an open note showcasing the overthinking nature of an individual.
This book is a must read for everyone. It has various psychology thrillers in it.
