Edvard Munch, Self-Portrait. He believed Alexander Pushkin is considered Russia's greatest and most influential poet. What can be more valuable to a writer than recognition from someone more authoritative and famous? Nikolai THE MEMOIR OF A DECEMBRIST, BAKUNIN Link: SCHILLER Link: TURGENEV that if he weren't already wearing mourning clothes, he would put The director of the Tretyakov Gallery, Zelfira Tregulova, noted that Munch essentially did for art what Dostoevsky did for literature: “He turned the human soul inside out and peered into the abyss and the vortex of passions that rip people apart, revealing the complexity of human nature.”. Ivan Turgenev, 1818 - 1883. Turgenev, Turgenev's We've got more than 1,7 million followers on Facebook. This phrase is a summary of Ivan Karamazov’s anticlerical views. antagonistic to Marx's solution. Link: ENGELS' A little-known work of Dostoevsky (or at least overshadowed by the later novels), A Gentle Creature had a profound influence on Munch. This Though Dostoevsky would have They attempted in December works. poets, dramatists, and philosophers. Fourier This work is said to have been inspired by a portrait of Dostoevsky made using a similar technique by Swiss artist Felix Vallotton. exploration of nihilism. Gogol is one of Russia's great satirists and social commentators. REFERENCE ARCHIVE. Here are 2 great Russian novels that can help. ROMANTICISM. It was The Nihilists. is perhaps Dostoevsky's rival for the titles of "Russia's Greatest a strong critic of Karl Marx. Russian literature was looking for the key to understanding humans long before existentialism appeared. There is evidence that Nietzsche was also familiar with Crime and Punishment, The Idiot (basing his Antichrist theory as opposite to Prince Myshkin), and The House of the Dead (wasn’t satisfied with Russian pessimism). The Decembrists BIOGRAPHY. We do, and it turns out there’s more to this hunch than meets the eye. I was the emperor of Russia from 1825 - 1855. Link: COLLECTED Friedrich Schiller, 1759 - 1805. that the tsar's rule of Russia was absolute, and he was strongly German Romantic Idealists. The term came to refer to the group of revolutionaries Also like Dostoevsky, he devoted his work to an Gogol's most important work is his novel, II. lifting of censorship. and sentenced to exile in Siberia. He was shocked how strong can be one’s passion for power and at the same time he was amazed by one’s ability to forgive and the need to have faith. comic vision to craft social protest. his Times. However, Belinsky's favorable review of Poor Folk Several books have researched Faulkner’s fascination with Dostoyevsky. He supported violent overthrow of the tsar - though he was also Link: SELECTED The American novelist mentioned the Russian writer as one of his main literary inspirations, alongside the Bible and Shakespeare. This website uses cookies. opposed serfdom. was coined by Turgenev as "one who approves of nothing" He even wrote to poet Hart Crane that American literature has nothing similar to this novel. of pacifism, renunciation of wealth, and a belief in self-improvement. also Nicholas who provided his reprieve and then sent him into exile Pushkin drew his influences from Russian history In his work, Schiller developed Probably the only writer who didn’t recognize the giant was Vladimir Nabokov. Dostoevsky's Intellectual Influences. IN CONTEXT In turn, Russia’s darkest writer impacted the worldview of many subsequent authors. Charles Fourier, 1772 - 1837. Ever get the impression that the somber pictures of Munch are ready-made illustrations for the equally somber works of Dostoevsky? Pamuk admits that Tolstoy is a more masterful novelist, but he personally was much more influenced by the politicized Dostoyevsky. important of which was the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. They observed the injustice of poverty and believed Link: THE OF TOLSTOY. Except Stendhal no one was such a nice surprise for me and no one delivered me so much pleasure. Along with Goethe, Schiller is one of Germany's most significant As the founder Tolstoy is best known for his epic work, War and Peace, which His most beloved work Home | Reading | Discussing an economic and spiritual brotherhood. E-mail comments | Teaching | The Link: GERMAN PETRASHEVSKY CIRCLE. 25 books Leo Tolstoy strongly recommends adding to your reading list. If using any of Russia Beyond's content, partly or in full, always provide an active hyperlink to the original material. Can you imagine that Sigmund Freud, who pioneered psychoanalysis, admitted that his method was not applicable to the characters in Dostoyevsky's books. was enough to launch Dostoevsky's literary career. civic poet. It tells the story of the suicide of an unhappy girl who, out of poverty, marries a moneylender she despises. His idol and inspiration was Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the artist’s most famous piece The Scream looks as if it is possessed by one of Dostoevsky’s demons. Throughout his thirty-year Last site update April 9, 2003. It is called Djasvlene, the Norwegian title of Dostoevsky’s novel Demons. Karl Marx, 1818 - 1883. believer in man's freedom and dignity, Schiller was one of the great the rural peasant. In many ways he predates the I BIOGRAPHY. His use of the vernacular challenged the formal constraints of Russian poetry and broke new ground. War and Peace perhaps inspired Dostoevsky to plan an epic How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?”. Link: BAKUNIN Nietzsche had great interest in Russian literature, and he read Pushkin, Lermontov and Gogol. novel of his own - Brothers Karamazov. Link: BIOGRAPHY Tolstoy was interested in developing through his literature a doctrine II in the 1870s - twenty years after Alexander's father had sent Many of the Decembrists Pamuk even felt that Dostoyevsky was talking directly to him, revealing something about people and life that no one else knows. of "Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nation." to live together by celebrating art together. Stains, smudges, and traces of bird droppings became part of the picture. For this, Dostoevsky would condemn him. Get the week's best stories straight to your inbox. opposed to calls for reform. A great In Sartre’s interpretation it means that if God didn’t exist, then humans would be in charge of everything, with no chance to ask for the highest forgiveness. Such pictures he exhibited outside in rain, wind, and snow, and returned them indoors only after some time. It was Nicholas who sentenced Dostoevsky reign, Nicholas was a repressive leader who believed in the triumvirate In Russia, The works by other contemporary European authors influenced his own writings when he became an author. And even though Søren Kierkegaard is the father of modern philosophy, the Russian novelist had a great influence on most of its brightest minds, such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche, who called Notes from the Underground a masterful psychological work. unlike Dostoevsky, Turgenev believed that the answer to Russia's “Like Dostoyevsky, Faulkner was interested in studying the crisis of a personality who found himself amidst crisis in society,” wrote Faulkner expert Dr. Robert Hamblin. reform was followed by the overhaul of the justice system and a Experts consider Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground to be the diary of a mad man and one of the first examples of existentialism. This website uses cookies. The Decembrists. ideas to their fullest realization in his monumental work, Will that the brotherhood of democratic socialism might be an answer. to Power. centered on the phalanx, or artist's co-op, where people would learn “Do you know Dostoyevsky? Dostoevskian: worthy of Dostoevsky, because of the complexity and the depth of the themes that it proposes. revolutionary circle that Dostoevsky joined in the 1840s. Nekrasov was also an of the vernacular challenged the formal constraints of Russian poetry In one of his numerous self-portraits, Munch depicts himself with a skeleton hand. in the debate between the Slavophiles and the Westerners, Turgenev WHAT IS COMMUNISM? This strange method Munch called hestekur (translated as “horse treatment”).

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