#the idiot dostoevsky

[edwardian-masquerade]

"Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"

[sad-eyed-lady-of-the-paperbacks]

Listen up kids: if you’re going to break up with someone, don’t do it over text. Be a man about it and sneakily try to set her up with your bipolar genius brother and when that doesn’t work as intended and just results in yet another insane hysterical toxic situation that needs to be studied, you send your other little angelic brother to break up with her on your behalf. Like we did back in the good old days.

[billbrotherman]

Nastasya Filippovna

messing around w brushes in CSP again decided to draw her for the first time, planning to do more of these idk. also still looking for mutuals since i moved to tumblr

[sentimentalfoolz]

i disappear from the dostoy fandom and come back with this

[fatimazainab]

Be a Dostoyevsky character: rot in your room! <3

[magdalenepie]

trying to draw them

[deimosatellite]

myshkin and rogozhin

[redonschimera]

Prince Myshkin and Nastasya Filippovna, first meeting

[butchkaramazov]

[hapless-raining]

i think i never posted it here, but in september i made little prince Myshkin and Rogozhin out of polymer clay. idk just randomly wanted to share

[bloody-finley]

old sketch I failed to post for the lack of courage…love my queen until now 💕

for me her charisma is truly hard to capture… :(

[mikhailrakitin]

hi nastasya ( ˶ˆ꒳ˆ˵ )

[sad-eyed-lady-of-the-paperbacks]

These paragraphs are from an older post of mine, but I’m going to make it its own post because I think I managed to pinpoint and articulate a huge part of why I love Dostoevsky novels so much, and why they resonate so deeply: his novels capture, as Mitya Karamazov puts it, “the realism of real life!” and he achieves this in a way that might seem counterintuitive.

Though heavily influenced by the gothic, Dostoevsky's genre is realism. In his novels, there are many extraordinary events, strange contradictions, outliers, plausible improbabilities, coincidences, almost miraculous occurrences—but all of this only contributes to the realism, because that's how real life is. "You can't make this up!" we say so often in real life. But Dostoevsky did make it up, and rather than break our suspension of disbelief, it counterintuitively imbues his novels with the very essence of reality.

Generally speaking, seemingly mystical events in Dostoevsky novels end up having psychological explanations. For example, in Crime and Punishment, it strikes Raskolnikov as miraculous that he should be thinking of Svidrigailov and then happen upon the very tavern where Svidrigailov is. But it is then revealed that Svidrigailov told him that he could be found in that tavern. Though Raskolnikov’s conscious mind forgot, that knowledge was still there subconsciously, so that when he started thinking about Svidrigailov, he went toward the tavern without knowing why. What seems a miracle is in fact psychological (and amazingly, betrays a very accurate understanding of how brains work).

[billbrotherman]

Nastasya Filippovna

[possessedbydevils]

PHOTOS OF THE IDIOT PLAY OF MOSSOVET THEATRE ARE EVERYTHING!!!

Photo 1- Gavrila, 2- General Epanchin, 3- Aglaya and Myshkin, 4- Rogozhin, 5- Rogozhin and Myshkin, 6- Nastasya Filippovna

There are so many more photos (about 52 to be exact) but l couldn't put them all so l just put the ones with the characters (and favs)

[fatimazainab]

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment