Daniel Rey

Born out of suffering: the inspiration of Dostoevsky’s great novels

Alex Christofi interweaves the fiction with the author’s crippling experiences of epilepsy, forced labour, destitution and the deaths of his children in infancy

Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1862, aged 41. Credit: Getty Images. 
issue 16 January 2021
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