/lit/ - Literature

>>2397125
But while his works may not be as realist as Tolstoy or Gorky and other movements in Russia to come he does abandon Romanticism that Gogol championed in his work. I mean he is sort of unique in what his works overall strive for. With Chernyshevsk rationalism mixed with liberalism and the notion that Russians should break with the tsar was championed and Dostoyevsky was kind of a reactionary. He saw what was on the horizon for Russia and wanted instead the church to replace the state. So most of his characters are affected by this vision in his later novels at least which is what may lead them astray from true realism but his characters reactions to the trivial and scandalous seem down to earth.

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