The story
Prison, exile, debt, illness, and religious argument became fiction with unusually high moral pressure.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian novelist · Russia
Why Fyodor Dostoevsky matters
His novels show how inner conflict can become the real plot.
Featured work
Crime and Punishment
Why we show it: interior conflict can be as gripping as action.
Major works
The Brothers Karamazov
The Idiot
Demons
