![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dostoevsky’s characters are superbly realistic as are the world they live in and problems they have nevertheless, Dostoevsky’s dogmata maintain romantic ideologies, as is evident in his work, The Possessed(1872). In the 18th century, romanticism was an ideology aroused among the artists and intelligentsia and we now live in a world which it has conquered: we are all romantics in one form or another to our own detriment. An epitomic figure of the realist movement in his life, Dostoevsky however profoundly maintained among his figures a deeply romantic view of sexuality. Fyodor Dostoevsky has been described as a romantic realist, most notedly in Donald Fangers’ book, Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism: A Study of Dostoevsky in Relation to Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol(1965). ![]()
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