Dostoevsky's Great Gift

 

Dostoevsky possessed the power "to create people rather than types and to surround them with the atmosphere essential for their development and exhibition."

Reading the major novels of Dostoevsky's mature period, one feels the "intense, burning reality" of his greatest characters. The "depth and richness of Dostoevsky's psychological insight" has few peers in modern literature.

Little wonder, then, that Nietzsche named him "the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn."

                                            ~ Richard Curle