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Post-Siberia I have heard him classed as the leader of the Russian Conservatives.

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I thought Dostoevsky was an existentialist, and spent a lot of his time attacking nihilism?

I've heard this said but I cant reconcile the opinions he expresses and Existentialism

 

btw I've written those reviews;)

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Hello all,

Dostoievsky's style is not Nihilist. He displays Nihilism in many of his books (Notes from the underground, Karamazov Brothers, The Idiot, etc...) but he's not a nihilist himself as he deeply believes in god.

Dostoievsky is not an existentialist either as exitentialism relate to Sartre and co's style which is far from Dostoievsky's.

If I would define his style I would use words such as mystic, russian, deep-psychology, drama.

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