Fyodor Dostoevsky, n.All

Fyodor Dostoevsky is a writer whose concern was always what it is to be a human being—that is, how to be an actual *person*, someone whose life is informed by values and principles, instead of just an especially shrewd kind of self-preserving animal.

Fyodor Dostoevsky is difficult to admire with his lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky is a writer who informs everybody; or he ought to.