Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?

The Russian novelist and essayist, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, is considered a forerunner of existentialist thought. He was born in Moscow and attended school there and attended the School of Military Engineers in St. Petersburg. In 1849 he was arrested for membership in a secret utopian socialist organization, the Petrashevsky Circle, and sent to into exile in Siberia for eight years. The arrest and imprisonment interrupted his career for nearly a decade. Much of his literary work was dedicated to the demolition of the pretensions of the scientific, rational humanitarianism of the 19th century and with justifying the necessity of faith and of God as conditions of true freedom. His most influential works are Poor Folk (1846), The Double (1846), The House of the Dead (1860), The Insulted and the Injured (1861), Notes From the Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), The Possessed (1871-72), The Adolescent (1875), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80).

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