Top 10 books by Feodorov Dostoyevsky included psychological, crime, drama and mysteries

I wanted to write about these books because I read them while working at the library.

I wanted to recommended most interesting books which I read myself along time when I worked in library. I was enjoyed to much to read them.  It was help me to understand me and human being.

Feodor Dostoevsky works of fictions include 15 novels and novellas, 17 stories, and 5 translation. Many of his longer novels were first published in serialized from in literary magazines and journals. The years gives below indicate the year which the novel’s final part or first complete book edition was published. In English many of his novels and stories are known by different titles.  

His books have been translated into more than 170 languages.

And today I wanted to recommended interesting and most reading books in the world.

10. Poor Folk

This is an epistolary novel that is, a table told as a series of letters between the characters. And oh,what characters these are! Makar Dievuskin Alexievitch is a copy writer, barely squeaking by; Barabara Alexievna works as a seamstress, and both face the short of everyday humiliation society puts upon the poor. These are people respected by no one, not even by themselves. These are folks too poor, in their circumstances, to marry; the love between them is a chaste and proper thing, a love that brings some readers to tears.

Fyodor Dostoevsky has something profound to say about these people and his circumstance and he says it very well.

 

 9. Notes from Underground

Led by the belief that "man likes to weigh only his bitterness, and happiness does not weigh it," the unnamed narrator of the Underground Notes is a misanthrope living alone in St. Petersburg in the second half of the nineteenth century. century. His life is an endless struggle with the increasingly acute feeling of alienation from his peers. In his notes, he revolts against all conceptions and values of society, opposing the science and rationalism absolutely adopted by contemporaries. But when he tries to implement his principles and exercise the absolute freedom of conscience he believes in in everyday life, the results are painful, which increases his alienation and self-loathing.

Notes from the Underground is Dostoevsky's darkest work. It is, first of all, a case study on alienation and self-loathing, a book that is analyzed by both society and the individual. Secondly, it is a tragicomedy of ideas. It represents a strong rejection of enlightened ideas as well as the promises of socialist utopias. He bravely rejects the notions of "development" and "morality" and portrays human beings as irrational, defiant, and refusing to cooperate. To paraphrase Nietzsche, Insignia is the "voice of the blood."

Dostoevsky offered us a dark, difficult work, which is won the role of important work not only work that is preparing more popular novels of the Russian writer.

8. Humiliated and Insulted 

     Humiliated and Overwhelmed, the first of Dostoevsky's great books tells the story of love, suffering, pride, sacrifice, mistakes, and forgiveness — in short, life as it is.

Published in 1861, after returning from exile, it already fixes some of the elements that can be accepted as the basic props in most of his novels: pure, selfless love, full of goodness to sacrifice, the contrasts between social classes, naivety and youthful zeal. , the maturation - through the fire bath of lived experiences -, the human misery that hides under the clothes and roofs of the upper class,

This time we enter Petersburg through Ivan Petrovici, the narrator-character. Curious and intuitive beyond measure, both analytical and fanciful, he succumbs to the irresistible urge (despite physical and mental exhaustion) to discover the story of an old man who had been attracting his attention for some time.

In Miller's cafe, the patriarchal atmosphere is frequently interrupted by this strange, extremely weak old man, and his equally weak, strange and old dog.

(Of course, moving forward with the story, an insightful reader will understand the role of this old age, accentuated as a phosphorescence, strongly suggesting the dramatic life experience).

Through a bizarre accumulation of events, Ivan witnesses the death of the dog Azorka, then the owner (who he learns to be called Jeremiah Smith, a Russian citizen of foreign origin, former mechanic, aged 78) and ends up renting the former his home.

The house, a small room, extremely poor, brings him the thread of events that will mix with his personal history, a series of events that once started, can not be stopped until the natural outcome…

Among the characters we will remember: the Ihmenev family - the naive Nikolai Sergheievich (Vanea / Ivan's benefactor), his wife Ana Andreevna and his daughter Natasha Nikolaievna, Prince Pyotr Alexandrovich Valkovsky - the incarnation of human rot - and his son, Aliosha, Katia and little girl Z and touching.

7. The eternal Husband

During the reading, I managed to feel from feelings of hatred and disgust towards some characters, to compassion and regret. It is not as long as his other novels (Crime and Punishment, Memories of the House of the Dead, The Idiot, The Karamazov Brothers, etc.), but it is an easy and "quite" quiet read. It is not Dostoevsky's typical novel that leaves a strong imprint on the human condition, but it also covers this subject in wider areas.

            Velceaninov, a man in his second youth, without friends, having a deserted life, discovers that he is being pursued by a certain Pavel Pavlovich. He turns out to be the man he hosted for a year, and then came back to Petersburg to continue a trial.

            During that year, Velceaninov is in love with his host's wife, Natalia Vasilievna, with whom he will have a child (Liza) - an event that took place 9 years ago. These things will be found out by the cheated husband, after a few years (at the death of his wife), when he decides to hunt down his lover.

            Pavlovici proves to be a man of weak character, to whom revenge and even the attempt to kill his opponent give him satisfaction; he is a soulless man, who apparently never loved his wife - rushing to a new bride, but neither "daughter". Having become an alcoholic after the death of his wife, he tries to put himself under the skin of his old friend, Velceaninov. This man, succeeded only in provoking a real disgust for those of his case; the hatred I felt from a simple dialogue to the end.

            Meanwhile, the former lover suffers a second shock when he sees his illegitimate daughter, who has never managed to find out who her real father really is. Velceaninov tries to console himself throughout the novel on his situation, on the tragic destiny of Lisa and on the Petersburg world he had avoided.

            It is one of Dostoevsky's "relaxation" novels, in which you will not have that intense subconscious game that will follow you non-stop; it's only good for the moment when you take a short break between two heavier novels (my case where I plan to read all his works by the end of the year).

6. White Nights and after stories

"White Nights" is a short story written by F.M. Dostoevsky and originally published in 1848. Its success was so great that several films were made after it. Some of them are older, others newer. The great Russian writer born in Moscow is much better known for his other works. "Crime and Punishment", "Karamazov Brothers", "The Idiot", "Demons", "Notes from the Underground", "The Player", "Poor People", "Memories of the Dead", "The Teenager" and "Humiliated and Forgotten" . But these are just some of his writings, his work being extremely extensive.

“White Nights” is a short prose written by F.M. Dostoevsky at a fairly young age, early in his career

Its value is probably not so great, but that does not make it less worth reading. Like other stories by the Russian writer, "White Nights" is told in the first person by an anonymous narrator. This is a young man who lives in St. Petersburg, but suffers from loneliness. In addition, he is a great dreamer, sometimes preferring to stay in his world than to join the ranks of others.

Probably today we would consider him as one of the most suitable representatives of the introverted personality. But his life changes when he meets and befriends a young woman. Moreover, he even falls in love with her quite quickly. However, his love will not be shared due to the fact that the girl already loves someone else. And she's waiting for that someone to come back into her life.

5. Adolescents

One of the most important and influential writers in the world, the author of the masterpieces Crime and Punishment, The Karamazov Brothers, The Idiot or Demons, books translated into all languages, adapted for theater or screened.

Unlike Dostoevsky's other novels, The Adolescent is told from the perspective of a nineteen-year-old, whose naivety is reflected in a narrative voice as naive as the book's protagonist. The illegitimate son of a depraved landowner, the young Arkadi Makarovici Dolgoruki oscillates constantly between the attempt to expose his father's mistakes and the hidden desire to gain his appreciation. Armed with a document that he imagines will give him full power over others, Arkadi goes to Petersburg to meet his father, but this initiatory experience reveals the concrete miseries of adult life and fundamentally changes his view of the world. Dostoevsky sees the passage of his character through adolescence as a continuous state of insecurity, ignorance and imperfection, but also of fantasy and exuberance in which everything is possible.

 4. Demons

I made a habit of writing reviews of some readings before the end of the process. Maybe the situation is blameworthy, but I do not regret this fact, for the simple reason that such ideas are volatile, fresh, beyond templates or prejudices.

Dostoevsky's novel "Demons" is first and foremost a kind of challenge for me, a commitment that I made with dexterity and passion. It may sound somewhat exhilarating, but believe me it's hard to read the Russian classic.

The first cause, and probably the most obvious, is volume. Russians like to write a lot, complicated and extremely explicit. Some scenes lasted a few chapters, others were reduced to simple spontaneous lightning.

The second - the construction of the characters. Dostoevsky has the feverishness of a parapsychologist, emphasizing not only the static features, but also the behavioral metamorphoses of heroes. The meticulousness and satire with which he describes the portrait of the characters is worthy of the talent of a true critic of human drama.

3. The Idiot

The idiot in Dostoevsky's work is Prince Lev Nikolaevich Miskin, who after a long treatment at a sanatorium in Switzerland, returns from St. Petersburg, where probably due to the fact that he was isolated from civilization for a long time, he sees the world differently from the others.

Unintelligible to anyone for the pure sincerity he shows, for his behavior of first everyone and due to the epilepsy he suffered, he receives this nickname being fully aware of this.

Charming in his innocence, he attracts the sympathy of those around him and ends up attaching himself to Nastasia Filippova, a very beautiful woman, and Aglaia Ivanova, adolescents from a good family. His attachment to these two people is not necessarily out of love, but rather out of compassion, which ultimately makes him suffer a lot.

Receiving an inheritance, Miskin remains unchanged but face to face with the two women and driven by pity, he makes a choice (not necessarily him) that will turn almost everyone against him.

The novel is very complex, with many characters sometimes described down to the most detail, with realistic scenes and unexpected twists, with well-thought-out psychological analyzes that are difficult to include in this summary.

The story ends with the tragic end of the prince, who arrives back in the sanatorium, having no chance of being saved after the woman who was supposed to be his wife is killed by his brother on the cross.

 2. The Brothers Karamazov

This is a great story keeps you guessing for a lot of the time. In parts it gets a bit tedious when he goes off on one of his psychological character rants.

This book is composed of 12 books, the novel tell the story of the novice Alyosha Karamazov, the non-believer Ivan Karamazov and the soldier Dimitri Karamazov.  The action of the novel focuses on the three brothers who each have a pathological predisposition for passion. In a metaphorical sense, it can be said that the brothers somehow make up 3 fundamental hypostases of man. Dimitri, the eldest, is an exponent of sensuality and the body. Ivan, it represents the intellect, the reason.

All three brothers are in conflict with their father, Feodor Pavlovich Karamazov, who represents the typology of the depraved man who leads an immoral and debauched life.

Smerdeakov, allegedly the fourth brother, illegitimate son, serves his father Feodor Pavlovich, his evolution is also interesting; having as its existential principle sophistry he dedicates himself to this concept which will eventually lead him to suicide.

 

1.    Crime and Punishment

The novel Crime and Punishment (1866) established Dostoevsky's literary glory by appearing for the first time in Russki Vestnik magazine. Followed with interest by contemporaries and translated into almost all European languages, the novel Crime and Punishment was the first more complete literary cohesion of his philosophical conception.

Crime and Punishment is the first social-philosophical novel by Dostoevsky that treats the psychology of crime with great seriousness. The starting point of Dostoevsky's philosophy is the adversity of the bourgeoisie and the capitalist system. Thus, one of the predominant thematic preoccupations of the writer is the highlighting of the sufferings and misery to which most people are condemned.

The novel's action takes place in the year marked by a serious financial crisis, and it is no coincidence that Raskolnikov's story begins under the sign of the same crisis. His family is on the verge of misery, he himself has to interrupt his studies due to his precarious financial situation; to help her mother and brother, Dunia wants to sell herself, just like ordinary prostitutes. What could be more natural in St. Petersburg of misery and usurers than to kill and rob a usurer ?!

           Writer Elena Bogus