His works are often called prophetic because he so accurately predicted how Russia’s revolutionaries would behave if they came to power. Literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism have been profoundly shaped by his ideas. Petersburg), Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination, had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction.ĭostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived. Summary "The Crocodile" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in 1865 in his magazine Epoch.įyodor Dostoyevsky, in full Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky, Dostoyevsky also spelled Dostoevsky, (born November 11, 1821, Moscow, Russia-died February 9, 1881, St. 'The Idiot' has also been adapted for films and TV, as has 'Demons' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.Publisher: Lighthouse Books for Translation and Publishing There have been at least 30 film and TV adaptations of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1866 novel 'Crime and Punishment' with probably the most popular being the British BBC TV series starring John Simm as Raskolnikov and Ian McDiarmid as Porfiry Petrovich. A connoisseur of the troubled human psyche and the relationships between the individuals, Dostoevsky’s oeuvre covers a large area of subjects: politics, religion, social issues, philosophy, and the uncharted realms of the psychological.
The situation becomes a scene from the theatre of the absurd, making the tale a poignant finger wagging at the problems of humanity.įyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a famous Russian writer of novels, short stories, and essays. What follows is an immensely humorous and satirical account of Ivan's new life from inside the crocodile, unable to get out because the owner refuses to kill the beast.Ī precursor to Kafka’s 'Metamorphosis', Dostoevsky’s short story is a farcical depiction and social criticism of Russian society at the time.
Ivan Matveich was thinking it was a bad idea to see a live crocodile on the street as it swallowed him whole! Why couldn't it have eaten his wife Elena instead?
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