Fedor Dostoïevski

Series:

French-speaking literature

Writers - Books

Literary history

Antiquity - The Middle Ages - XVIE S. - XVIIE S. - XVIIIE S. - XIXE S. - XXE S. - XXIE S.

Literary forms

- Novel - -

Literary kinds

Biography - - - - - Youth - Experimental - New novel

See too

Litt. not French-speaking person - - - Writing

Méta

- Gate Literature

Fiodor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski was born with it of ( of ). His/her father was a doctor and too authoritative was assassinated by its own peasants. His/her mother died when it was very young. It enters to the school ofengineers of in and becomes officer engineer genius in . In , it requires its reprocess to be able to devote itself to and writes its first novel, The poor people.

In 1847, it makes the knowledge of Petrachevski and attends the revolutionary circle. This same year, it makes its first epileptic fit, at 26 years

Dostoïevski is stopped and imprisoned in April for its engagements in activities against Nicolas I^er. After a show ofexecution on the Semenovski place, December 22, 1849, the sentence is transformed into one exile several years in one camp of work in . In 1850 it arrives at Omsk (Memories of the house of deaths, 1860). Its sorrow finishes in and it are affected as officer with a regiment of . It is pardoned, obtains its retirement as second lieutenant, returns to Russia, and it has the authorization to live in Saint-Petersbourg, under the monitoring of the secret police.

It is revolving in ofauthor. It gives up its radical feelings and becomes deeply preserving and extremely . It starts a relation with Maria Dmitrineva Isaeva (the woman of a knowledge) with whom it will marry later.

In , it turns over to Pétersbourg saint, where it launches out without much success in for newspapers with his/her Mikhaïl brother. In 1862, it goes to Europe for the first time and meets Apollinaria Souslova. His wife dies in , then his/her Mikhaël brother in 1865. It does not cease travelling, plays the caster. It is covered with debts and must provide what to live with the woman and the children of his brother. It sinks in terrible depression, plays in living rooms and joyeusement accumulates the failures and losses with the tables of play.

To escape from creditors of , Dostoïevski travels in . It re-examines Apollinaria (Pollina) Suslova which refuses its proposal of . It engages Anna Griogorievna Snitkine, as secretary and it becomes his wife in 1867.

It succumbs to a haemorrhage it of (9 February of ) and is buried with . Its funerals are followed by 30 000 people.

It will have known glory only in its last year, and will be regarded as one of largest geniuses .

Chronology of the?uvres

• The poor people,
• Double, 1846
• A novel in nine letters, 1846
• Mr Prokhartchine, 1846
• The landlady,
• Annals of Pétersbourg, 1847
• Polzounkov,
• A weak c?ur, 1848
• The woman of another and the husband under the bed, 1848
• The honest robber, 1848
• A Christmas tree and a marriage, 1848
• Sleepless nights, 1848
• A weak c?ur 1848
• Accounts of a man of experiment (1848)
• The pensioner (1848)
• The marriage under the tree (1848)
• The jealous husband (1848)
• Nétotchka Nezvanova, 1848-
• The small hero, 1849
• The dream of the uncle, -
• The borough of Stépantchikovo and its population, 1859
• Humiliated and offended,
• Memories of the house of deaths, -
• A nasty business, 1862
• Notes of winter on impressions of summer,
• A curious event (1863)
• Memories written in an underground (1863)
• Notebooks of the basement,
• The crocodile, 1864
• Crime and Punishment,
• The player, 1866
• The idiot,
• The eternal husband,
• Demons (also translated under the title Had),
• Newspaper of the writer, :
  • "Bobok"
  • "Small images"
  • "the beggar"
• Small images (on a journey),
• The teenager, 1874-
• Newspaper of the writer, :
  • "the boy" with the shackle ""
  • "the Maréï mujik"
  • "the soft one"
  • "the centenary"
• Newspaper of the writer, :
  • "the dream of a ridiculous man"
• The triton,
• The Brothers Karamazov,
• Speech on Pouchkine,