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🖋 Today marks the 205th anniversary of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s birth.
His novels continue to captivate readers around the world through their psychological depth, profound insight and timeless exploration of human nature.
Many British readers are familiar with Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. In 2024, 100,000 copies of his White Nights were sold in the UK. Today, we turn the spotlight on three lesser-known works that reveal the breadth of Dostoevsky’s literary talent.
The Double (1846)
An early exploration of divided identity, this story anticipates one of the central themes of Dostoevsky’s later works. It follows a low-ranking civil servant whose life is thrown into turmoil when a man identical in appearance, but far more cynical and opportunistic, emerges to take his place.
Notes from Underground (1864)
Often regarded as a turning point in Dostoevsky’s literary career and a precursor to his great novels, this novella introduces the figure of the ‘underground man’. In a deeply introspective and often bitter confession, an unnamed former civil servant argues that human beings are inherently irrational and will resist even the most logical rules simply to assert their free will.
A Gentle Creature (1876)
A small masterpiece of Dostoevsky’s later years, described by the author himself as a ‘fantastic story’, despite its lack of supernatural elements. The novella takes the form of a tormented monologue by a man who has just lost his wife and struggles to understand, in the midst of his grief, where he went wrong.
Discover more at Gateway to Russia
His novels continue to captivate readers around the world through their psychological depth, profound insight and timeless exploration of human nature.
Many British readers are familiar with Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. In 2024, 100,000 copies of his White Nights were sold in the UK. Today, we turn the spotlight on three lesser-known works that reveal the breadth of Dostoevsky’s literary talent.
The Double (1846)
An early exploration of divided identity, this story anticipates one of the central themes of Dostoevsky’s later works. It follows a low-ranking civil servant whose life is thrown into turmoil when a man identical in appearance, but far more cynical and opportunistic, emerges to take his place.
Notes from Underground (1864)
Often regarded as a turning point in Dostoevsky’s literary career and a precursor to his great novels, this novella introduces the figure of the ‘underground man’. In a deeply introspective and often bitter confession, an unnamed former civil servant argues that human beings are inherently irrational and will resist even the most logical rules simply to assert their free will.
A Gentle Creature (1876)
A small masterpiece of Dostoevsky’s later years, described by the author himself as a ‘fantastic story’, despite its lack of supernatural elements. The novella takes the form of a tormented monologue by a man who has just lost his wife and struggles to understand, in the midst of his grief, where he went wrong.
Discover more at Gateway to Russia
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