![]() I have brought out some six little works of this kind in the course of my life. I compiled the "Art of pleasing the ladies", a commission from a bookseller. " I made a nice little sum over a panegyric on his deceased excellency Pyotr Matveyitch. I write advertisements for shopkeepers too: "Unique opportunity! Fine tea, from our own plantations. They did not even understand, for the most part I translate from the French for the booksellers. "What sort of salt do you want?" I asked with a sneer. Those articles I took about from one editor to another everywhere they refused them: you have no salt they told me. I have written articles - they have been refused. I have written a novel, it has not been published. I do not resent it: but God knows I am not enough of a literary man to go out of my mind. Nowadays humour and a fine style have disappeared, and abuse is accepted as wit. But no, he doesn't care to do it indirectly. Say it indirectly, at least that's what you have style for. In print everything ought to be decorous there ought to be ideals, while instead of that. It may be so, but think of putting it so bluntly into print. I read: "Go and look at that morbid face suggesting insanity." An artist painted my portrait as it happened: "After all, you are a literary man," he said. I did not resent it, I am a timid man but here they have actually made me out mad. SEMYON ARDALYONOVITCH said to me all of a sudden the day before yesterday: "Why, will you ever be sober, Ivan Ivanovitch? Tell me that, pray."Ī strange requirement. Most of his important works were written after 1864: Notes from Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1865-6), The Gambler (1866), The Idiot (1869), The Devils (1871) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880).(1873) A bobok is a small bean Translated by Constance Garnett. In 1880 he delivered his famous address at the unveiling of Pushkin's memorial in Moscow he died six months later in 1881. ![]() From 1876 the latter was issued separately and had a large circulation. ![]() They lived abroad for four years, then in 1873 he was invited to edit Grazhdanin (The Citizen), to which he contributed his Diary of a Writer. In the following years he fell deeply in debt, but in 1867 he married Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina (his second wife), who helped to rescue him from his financial morass. In 1861 he began the review Vremya (Time) with his brother in 18 he went abroad, where he strengthened his anti-European outlook, met Mlle Suslova, who was the model for many of his heroines, and gave way to his passion for gambling. Whereas the latter draws heavily on his experiences in prison, the former inhabits a completely different world, shot through with comedy and satire. In the decade following his return from exile he wrote The Village of Stepanchikovo (1859) and The House of the Dead (1860). In 1849 he was arrested and sentenced to death for participating in the 'Petrashevsky circle' he was reprieved at the last moment but sentenced to penal servitude, and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison at Omsk, Siberia. His first story to be published, 'Poor Folk' (1846), was a great success. When he left his private boarding school in Moscow he studied from 1838 to 1843 at the Military Engineering College in St Petersburg, graduating with officer's rank. His mother died in 1837 and his father was murdered a little over two years later. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821, the second of a physician's seven children.
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