Project Gutenberg 2025-09-28 Public domain in the USA. 1199 Gide, André 1869 1951 Gide, Andre Gide, André Paul Guillaume Bennett, Arnold 1867 1931 Bennett, Enoch Arnold Bennett, E. Arnold Dostoevsky $aUnited States :$bAlfred A. Knopf, $c1926. "Two short chapters ... have been omitted by desire of the author, who adapted his original preface specially for this English edition."--Translator's note Sean/IB@DP, Terry Jeffress, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Dostoevsky" by André Gide is a work of literary criticism and biographical essays written in the early 20th century. It probes the life, thought, and artistry of Fyodor Dostoevsky, arguing for his primacy as a psychologist and moral visionary whose fiction wrestles with inner, spiritual conflicts rather than merely social ones. The focus is on how Dostoevsky’s characters embody living problems—religious, ethical, and existential—rendered with vivid humanity rather than abstract doctrine. The opening of this study presents Arnold Bennett’s introduction praising Gide’s insight and situating the book as a landmark in understanding Russian psychology, followed by a translator’s note explaining its origins as 1922 lectures and the sources quoted. Gide’s preface defends Dostoevsky against Western charges of irrationality, stressing his concern with the individual’s relation to self and God, the lifelike fluidity of his characters, and the uncompromising labor behind his art. In a long section drawn from correspondence, Gide sketches Dostoevsky’s aversion to letter-writing, lifelong poverty, humility in begging for help, ferocious work ethic and revisions, debilitating epilepsy, gambling and debts, intense family duties, and a worldview mixing Russian nationalism with a universal mission, Orthodoxy with a Christ-centered humanism, and individualism joined to self-sacrifice—all of which left him outside parties and programs. At the start of the addresses, Gide contrasts Rousseau’s self-conscious pose with Dostoevsky’s unposed humility, then recounts the youthful bohemian years, arrest in the Petrashevsky affair, mock execution, and Siberian exile, quoting letters that vividly depict the journey, brutal prison conditions, and the convict’s resilient hope and compassion he both received and offered. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/dostoevsky0000andr/page/n5/mode/2up 20250709124159gide 1926 US en Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 -- Criticism and interpretation Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 PG Text Nobel Prizes in Literature 403467 2025-11-30T10:02:03.873160 text/html 376015 2025-09-28T17:47:28 text/html 445987 2025-11-30T10:02:11.030147 application/epub+zip 443760 2025-11-30T10:02:05.769135 application/epub+zip 426365 2025-11-30T10:02:04.659180 application/epub+zip 1292328 2025-11-30T10:02:14.869108 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1261346 2025-11-30T10:02:10.243134 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 339981 2025-11-30T10:02:03.154178 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 320087 2025-09-28T17:47:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17610 2025-11-30T10:02:15.014109 application/rdf+xml 14107 2025-11-30T10:02:04.975148 image/jpeg 1875 2025-11-30T10:02:04.816137 image/jpeg 405934 2025-11-30T10:02:03.909148 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia