
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Great Russian Novelist and Proto-Existentialist
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Notes From the Underground Changed Literature
Wright: The mental psychology of him cannot be understated, cause it was the sort of impetus and force behind his penetrating writing. He obviously had this addictive, compulsive element to his personality at least in the first half of his life. And that comes up like notes of the underground when the protagonist is talking about his liver, but refusing to go address it. It's also, he's giving long philosophical speeches in the middle, characteristic of donstovesky. But ye, s was an immensely influential novel, you know? No, it maybe ias even important, asi.
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