Today is the day when we celebrate writers whose work explores the dark side of human existence…
Fyodor Dostoevsky, who once was brought to the scaffold in order to be executed, only to be pardoned in the last minute, was born Oct. 30, 1821 (old style Russian dates - d. 1881). His writings were obsessed with the twists and turns of human psychology, particularly its extremes: the motivations, and potentially justifications, for suicide, murder, patricide etc.
“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.” — Fyodor DostoevskyPhoto: LIFE Archives…
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