Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Great Russian Novelist and Proto-Existentialist
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Dostoevsky's Prison
Dostoevsky believed human suffering would cause the ability to become a genius in some ways. He was physically tortured for a while, and then psychologically tortured extremely being in solitary confinement. And he said that prison created more artistic geniuses than all the social programmes combined. So if you want to read about his account of this, is in the idiot.
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