Doestoevsky is considered one of the greatest writers of all time. Crime and punishment is a classic but especially The Brothers Karamasow seems to be very revered. Albert Einstein once said "Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss!". Nietzsche said that D. is the only psychologist he was able to learn something from. Freud on the other hand thought D. worked from a place of staunch moral absolutism, Christian orthodoxy, and Russian patriotism, all forces which Freud regarded as repressive. Either way and to this day, people analyze the dialogue between the Grand Inquisitor and Jesus. Although it's more of a monologue really.
I am not asking whether you liked his writing style or whether you thought the stories were exciting. I'm asking whether you were convinced by his ideas. D. was an orthodox christian who believed in the physical resurrection of Jesus and who thought that there is no morality without God and that the existence of your conscience can be seen as proof of that. There's more to his ideas of course.
I'm more than sure that there are a lot of atheists, agnostics, skeptic etc. here who have read his novels. I'm very much interested in what you think of his books and the case he makes through his stories.
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