The Infuriating Beauty of Dostoyevsky

And why he’s my favourite author.

The convicted man by Vladimir Makovsky

Few authors inspire at much dread in Western audiences as the Russians. I gave up on Tolstoy’s War and Peace as a teenager, when, as I was reading bed, dropped it on myself one too many times from the sheer weight of the thing. Over the last year or so though, the Russian authors have grown on me — specifically Dostoevsky.