Topic started by Wilnona (@ spider-loh-tf054.proxy.aol.com) on Mon Aug 20 13:08:49 .
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Most of the forums deal with detective novel or mystery novel. Of course I like this kind of novel but my preferate writers are Stefan Zweig and Fédor Dostoïevsky because their writing approach the Human and his psychology very well. If you like these writers or if you are interested in other classical writers you can give your opinion on this Forum. Thanks

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• From: anu nair (@ ppp-200-1-62.bng.vsnl.net.in) on: Mon Sep 3 09:25:19
  
  Here! I am great fan of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev and many other non-russian classical writers. The 3 mentioned above are noted for their psychological insight and the way in which they depict the mental trauma that goes on in every human being. In fact, I might go as much as to say that the Russian writers are much ahead of writers of all other nationalities in their depiction of human psychology. Dostoyevsky in particular often goes to the extreme in his expression. So much that a first time reader might wonder whether she's reading the works of a mad man. Crime and Punishment the most popular among his works gives us great insight into the mind of a killer and considers such matters as sin and redemption through suffering, so dear to Doestoyevsky and Tolstoy. However his lesser known works are no less interesting in this respect, especially Notes from the Underground, The insulted and the Injured, White Nights, The Gambler. Reading D is a battle in itself, as it shoves us out of the easy diet we've been fed on in the form of 'popular novels' and awakens us as a rude shock, about the inner trauma that's going inside our minds. Ultimately, whether one agrees or not to D's solution to the moral and psychoogical crises that he describes so well in his novels, this much can be said that reading them will tremendously change one's outlook to these crises.
  
  
• From: Hemalatha Venkataraman (@ 203.94.252.48) on: Wed Oct 3 13:59:38
  
  hello! i've been reading the master, the great Dostoyevsky for the past year and have read some of his work. I have been baffled by his insight to the moral, psychological an existential delimma's that he places his characters into. Although he is know to be an existential author, which he never took credit for, he seems to be saying through his characters the world that we live in presently. We are increasingly becoming and have become zombies. We do not question anything and accept all that comes our way. Raskolnikov is not wrong in questioning the world, but he has a bigger burden on his mind, which aids in his quest for meaning and identity as a person.
  
  

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