The life
Sentenced to death, reprieved at the last moment, then sent to a Siberian prison camp for four years — experiences that gave him his subject: what a person does with guilt. He wrote under debt and epilepsy, dictating his greatest novels to a stenographer he later married.
He put ideas on trial as characters, and let the winners lose.
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880
Three brothers, one murdered father, and the question of whether anything is permitted.
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866
A student commits a murder to prove a theory, then has to live inside it.
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