“¿Cómo procede la juventud rusa o, por lo menos, buena parte de ella? Va a un cafetucho caliente, como éste, y se agrupa en un rincón. Estos jóvenes no se habían visto antes y estarán cuarenta años sin volverse a ver. ¿De qué hablan el rato que pasan juntos? Sólo de cuestiones importantes: de si Dios existe, de si el alma es inmortal. Los que no creen en Dios hablan del socialismo, de la anarquía, de la renovación de la humanidad, o sea, de las mismas cuestiones enfocadas desde otros puntos de vista.”
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.