Remembering Human Misery Reflector Dostoevsky

The celebrated author Dostoevsky was born November 11 in 1821, in Moscow, Russia. He is one of the most influential names in the history of World literature. He is a Russian novelist and short-story writer who ped into the inner rooms of human psychology and human inner fears.

"He is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived. Literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism have been profoundly shaped by his ideas.His works are often called prophetic because he so accurately predicted how Russia’s revolutionaries would behave if they came to power. In his time he was also renowned for his activity as a journalist," according to Britannica.

He is best known for his "Notes from the Underground," "Crime and Punishment," "The Idiot," The Demons and The Devils," and "The Brothers Karamazov.""He specialized in the analysis of pathological states of mind that lead to insanity, murder, and suicide and in the exploration of the emotions of humiliation, self-destruction, tyrannical domination, and murderous rage."His novels also paved the way for many linguistic studies such as the linguistic literary theories of Bakhtin including Chronotope, Polyphony, Dialogism, and Heteroglossia.

He began his career by writing fiction about poor people in critical situations. In 1843 he finished his first novel, Poor Folk, a social tale about a down-and-out government worker, then he released The Double(1846).

He edited the journal Time with his brother Mikhail and wrote a number of fictional works. In 1861 he published Memoirs from the House of the Dead, a work of fiction based on his experiences in prison.

Notes from the Underground is a short novel where attempts to justify the existence of inpidual freedom as a necessary part of humankind.

In 1866 he published Crime and Punishment, which is one of the greatest novels, The timeless work is complex and it can be read from various perspectives.

The second world-famed novel by him is The Brothers Karamazov. "The psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) ranked it as one of the greatest artistic achievements of all time," according to Britannica.

He died on 9 February 1881 in St. Petersburg after publishing the last part of "The Brothers Karamazov."