Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Por lo que veo y no creo equivocarme, usted mismo al principio, y una vez más después, trazó con gran elocuencia (aunque de modo bastante teórico) un cuadro en que Rusia aparece cubierta de una red inmensa de pequeños grupos. Cada uno de estos núcleos de activistas, haciendo nuevos prosélitos y multiplicándose indefinidamente, procura mediante propaganda sistemática perjudicar el prestigio de las autoridades locales, sembrar la confusión entre la población rural, promover el cinismo y el escándalo, el descreimiento en todo lo habido y por haber, el ansia de algo mejor y, por último, recurriendo a los incendios como medio especialmente eficaz para sobresaltar al pueblo, llevar el país a la desesperación si ello es necesario.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Demons
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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.