Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Having recently completed several Books by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” the “Idiot” and the Possessed. The complicated nature of his writings, much of which admittedly present some difficulty in one’s understanding of them. Discussing the material certainly helps expand one’s thinking of these subjects not before given much thought. Politics of the time, religion and social awareness are some of the issues so detailed by the author make me want to read more. The following paragraphs briefly describe the Novels read. Between the years 1866 and 1880, Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky completed several well-read novels, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Possessed plus a long list of other outstanding works.
In the second part of this essay expanding upon my reading of nineteenth century Russian authors, the short stories of Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the White Dog” and the “Medical Case” will be compared. These two great authors’ whose stylistic qualities often create problems in interpretation for non-Russian speaking readers like me that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed.
In The Idiot Dostoevsky attempted to give form to what he called "the idea of the positively beautiful." However, he found that he was unable to present a fully confident person, although he recognized the possibility of the existence of such a figure and found proof of it in the historical existence of Christ. Thus, the hero of The Idiot, is weak- minded, epileptic, and ultimately defeated by the real world, even though he occupies a position of social advantage and has considerable wealth.
The Possessed, a band of wannabe radicals creates chaos in the Russian provinces. There are several subplots concerning love, murder, atheism, and ...

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...es writers were involved in documenting and analyzing the revolutionary processes, in Russia, it was the realist movement in literature and art itself which initiated the revolutionary wave and carried it forward. From around the 1830s underwent an astounding golden age, beginning with the poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin and concluding in two of the greatest novelists in world literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy and the short story writer and playwright Anton Chekhov. Since this was only my first experience in reading Russian literature it is difficult to accurately compare and connect Authorship, Genre, and Theme of the author’s selected. My writing skill is somewhat analysis limited. As for the Literature period, the Nineteenth century was the Golden era for Russian writers and is beyond being obvious in the writings of Dostoyevsky and Chekov.