Dostoevsky's Startling Predictions: Are They Coming True? (7 Tales)

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When I was in Moscow some years ago, I befriended a nice Russian dude, and we engaged in a spirited discussion about Dostoyevsky. In his view, the same had a severe breakdown around the age of 50, when he basically gave up on life, and gave away all of his considerable and valuable material trappings. Additionally, Dostoyevsky stopped writing, decided to estrange himself from his family, became an alcoholic, and ended up living on the streets. Moreover, he lost his faith in God, and religion in general, something that he apparently really struggled with, including the reality of his eventual mortality. He apparently wrote a few books about the inherent evil in religion. It got so bad, that he basically believed his life to be utterly meaningless, and that God does not exist - never did. He saw religion as a human construct intended to serve as a control mechanism by the powers that be to justify their evil deeds, cruelty, and immoraĺ behaviours against humanity. It was a spirited discussion that had a profound effect on me. Can you please share your thoughts about this? And thank you for your very compelling, insightful, and thought provoking intellectual views on these two great, Russian literary giants.

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The Grand Inquisitor is Catholic! His most famous prose, Fiction Beast, try not to be so hip, dropping names like Bukowski, whom I knew, he was friends with my uncle Stanley Rose of Bookstore fame, try reading Celine or Blaise Cendrars for some real literature!

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I love so much of this video but my personal understanding of Dostoyevsky towards the west was way more complex than the way you describe it… he had great admiration for Europe and spent so much time there the hypothesis of total rejection is very unlikely… I believe his positions are more about protecting identity from risks and dangers in general rather than specifically being against western values purely

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I agree, to some extent. I have not read all of these works. I mentioned that Tolstoy went into the army, because of his older brother was a military officer. He didn't enlist, he was escorted. lol I recommend "Tolstoy", by Troyat. It is a masterpiece bio.

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