Fyodor Dostoevsky is undoubtedly one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the world. The influence of German philosophy and literature is clear and evident in Dostoevsky works. But looking on the surface of his writings and looking deeper on his works, it seems that Dostoevskey’s impression of German ...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky is undoubtedly one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the world. The influence of German philosophy and literature is clear and evident in Dostoevsky works. But looking on the surface of his writings and looking deeper on his works, it seems that Dostoevskey’s impression of German is full of "Ressentiment" (using Nietzsche’s terminology). But considering the whole context of his creations, one can speak of “German inside” Dostoevsky. Stefan Zweig, one of the important thinkers of our time, suggest the method of “emphatic reading” of Dostoevsky’s life and works. This seems to be the only way for entering in the entire created world of a writer and thinker like Dostoevsky