Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian · 1821–1881
Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the towering figures of world literature, renowned for psychologically intense novels that probe guilt, suffering, free will, and religious faith. His major works include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, Notes from Underground, and The Brothers Karamazov — the last widely considered one of the greatest novels ever written. A devout Orthodox Christian whose work returns again and again to the problem of evil, Dostoevsky spent four years in a Siberian prison camp after a mock execution commuted at the last moment, an experience that shaped his lifelong preoccupation with suffering and grace.
Books
- The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
- Crime and Punishment (1866)
- Notes from Underground (1864)
Episodes
- 64. American Pastoral, part 2: The Indigenous American Berserk
- 62. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Thank God for Incognito Mode
- 46. Anna Karenina FINALE: Revenge of the Reddit Atheists
- 43. One Hundred Years of Solitude: The optimal amount of incest is non-zero
- 44. Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: Real Housewives of Russia
- 37. The Odyssey, part 2: Failsons and deadbeat dads
- 32. DYEL Christmas party: The most beloved and hated books of 2024
- 25. Crime and Punishment finale: is Dostoevsky...overrated??
- 24. Crime and Punishment, part 2: Three extraordinary men
- 23. Crime and Punishment, part 1: Mister Schizo and the First Trad
- 1. Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 1: Memeing big fat juicy asses into reality
Fleeting mentions
- 68. Middlemarch, part 2: Pity the man with the young hot wife
- 67. Middlemarch, part 1: A wish-fulfilment fantasy for spergy scholars
- 66. Raymond Carver: Cathedrals even for those without eyes to see
- 65. Walking away from 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas'
- 63. American Pastoral, part 1: Baby's First Lit Fic
- 59. Stefan Zweig's The Royal Game: What's the ultimate desert island book?
- 53. DYEL wrapped: Most beloved and hated books of 2025
- 49. C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures: the original stemcels vs shape rotators beef
- 39. Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed: Real anarchy has never been tried
- 35. Nikolai Gogol: Cutting your nose to spite the faceless bureaucracy
- 34. Blood Meridian, part 2: It's time for some game theory
- 30. Banned books: Vladimir Nabokov's infamous Lolita
- 28. Ted Chiang's Understand: Intelligence explosions and AI doom
- 27. Chekhov urself before u wreck-ov urself (The Little Trilogy)
- 26. Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: War and love
- 22. Susanna Clarke's Piranesi: Gaslight gatekeep girlboss
- 14. The Razor's Edge, part 3: Climbing off the wheel of suffering