Dostoyevsky's Suicide

Dostoyevsky knew from hard perience that self mastery of that kind was usually, probably always, just an illusion. He means it in a much more fundamental way, that if you are completely grounded and centred then your will becomes almost purified so that reality tends to bend itself to satisfy it. In his final novel, this great novel, the brothers karamazov, ivan, the atheist whi us one of the most fascinating of all dostoevsky's characters. The character kirilov, from demons, who nitchy recognized as the closest to his ideal in a sense, was a nihilist as well as an atheist,. And had determined