Sublime

The single most common mark of a Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel is psychology—both man's psychology in and of itself and the shaping force of psychology in man's life. This emerges from Dostoyevsky's own psychological suffering throughout his life.

Unlike most other great writers, Dostoyevsky himself is not discernible in his novels. There are no brilliant turns of phrase that can point to him, there is no definitive moral that can be elicited, he uses all his ingenuity and diligence to individualize people, and since there is so much in man that will not allow itself to be humbled or effaced

Dostoevsky’s heroes ‘feel deeply because they think deeply; they suffer endlessly because they were endlessly deliberative; they dare to will because they have dared to think’.