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To: skinowski who wrote (343270)	1/16/2010 9:51:27 AM
From: jrhana	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

I'm not sure where you got the idea that Dostoevsky was a leftist: In his writings, Dostoyevsky started to extol the virtues of humility, submission, and suffering.[13] He now displayed a much more critical stance on contemporary European philosophy and turned with intellectual rigour against the Nihilist and Socialist movements; and much of his post-prison work—particularly the novel, The Possessed, and the essays, The Diary of a Writer—contains both criticism of socialist and nihilist ideas, as well as thinly-veiled parodies of contemporary Western-influenced Russian intellectuals (Timofey Granovsky), revolutionaries (Sergey Nechayev), and even fellow novelists (Ivan Turgenev).[14][15] In social circles, Dostoyevsky allied himself with well-known conservatives, such as the statesman Konstantin Pobedonostsev. His post-prison essays praised the tenets of the Pochvennichestvo movement, a late-19th century Russian nativist ideology closely aligned with Slavophilism. For me he was the bizarre product of the very bizarre society that was late tsarist Russia. In her essay The Russian Point of View, Virginia Woolf said: The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts which hiss and boil and suck us in. They are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn in, whirled round, blinded, suffocated, and at the same time filled with a giddy rapture. Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading. en.wikipedia.org