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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (; Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, tr. Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ dəstɐˈjɛfskʲɪj] (listen); 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Dostoevsky's oeuvre consists of 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short stories, and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature. His 1864 novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature.

Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends, and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died in 1837 when he was 15, and around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk, which gained him entry into St. Petersburg's literary circles. Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia, he was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile. In the following years, Dostoevsky worked as a journalist, publishing and editing several magazines of his own and later A Writer's Diary, a collection of his writings. He began to travel around western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he eventually became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers.

Dostoevsky was influenced by a wide variety of philosophers and authors including Pushkin, Gogol, Augustine, Shakespeare, Dickens, Balzac, Lermontov, Hugo, Poe, Plato, Cervantes, Herzen, Kant, Belinsky, Hegel, Schiller, Solovyov, Bakunin, Sand, Hoffmann, and Mickiewicz. His writings were widely read both within and beyond his native Russia and influenced an equally great number of later writers including Russians like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov as well as philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre. His books have been translated into more than 170 languages.

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Polsunkow & Ein Roman in neun Briefen

Unter dem Namen Polsunkow erzählt Michailytsch gegen kleine Almosen Geschichten. Eines Tages erzählt er auch von dem Tag, an dem er fast geheiratet hat. Zum Vorschein kommt eine Geschichte von Bestechung, Liebe und Betrug. Polsunkows Hochzeitstag verlief alles andere als glücklich. Aus einem leichtsinnigen Scherz des hinterhältigen Betrügers Nikolajitsch wurde bitterer Ernst und am Ende stand Polsunkow nicht nur ohne Frau, sondern auch ohne Anstellung da. Doch es kommt der Tag, an dem sich Posunkow und Nikolajitsch erneut gegenüber stehen.

"In seinen Romanen zeigt Dostojewski Geisteszustände einfacher Menschen, die in einer Krise stecken und sich mit ihrem Leiden von der großen Welt alleingelassen fühlen. Natürlich wird Dostojewski immer mit der widersprüchlichen und geheimnisvollen russischen Seele in Verbindung gebracht. Doch auch einige Leser aus dem Westen werden sich in seinen Charakteren wieder erkennen." – Russland Journal Der russische Schriftsteller Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski (1821-1881) zählt zu den bedeutendsten Dichtern der Weltliteratur. Er kam als Sohn eines Armeearztes zur Welt und arbeitete zunächst im Kriegsministerium als technischer Zeichner. Nach kurzer Zeit gab er diesen Job jedoch auf und wurde freier Schriftsteller. Seine berühmtesten Werke, darunter "Schuld und Sühne", "Der Idiot", "Die Dämonen" und "Die Brüder Karamasow", entstanden in den 1860er und 1870er Jahren. Insgesamt schrieb Dostojewski neun Romane, zahlreiche Novellen und Erzählungen sowie etliche nicht-fiktionale Texte. Seine Bücher wurden in mehr als 170 Sprachen übersetzt.
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Publish date05 Aug 2019
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ISBN audio9788726185539