Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.

In Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot, the idiocy of the main character, Prince Lev Nikolaievich Myshkin, is attributed more to his honesty, trustfulness, kindness, and humility, than to a lack of intellectual ability.

* Fyodor Dostoevsky's book The Idiot had a character, General Ivolgin, who witnessed and recounted his relationship with Napoleon during the Campaign of Russia.

First-person narratives can appear in several forms: interior monologue, as in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground ; dramatic monologue, as in Albert Camus ' The Fall ; or explicitly, as in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

" Călinescu thought that the young male characters all owed inspiration to Fyodor Dostoevsky's Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov ( see Crime and Punishment ).

However, she continued to produce stories, including Je ne parle pas français, one of her darker works ( believed to have been inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground, it is a deeply personal work that casts Murry in negative light ).

He also appeared in Peter Shaffer ’ s The Royal Hunt of the Sun ( with Robert Stephens ), Charley's Aunt, Tom Stoppard ’ s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Congreve's The Way of the World, Georges Feydeau ’ s A Flea In Her Ear ( directed by Jacques Charon of the Comédie Française ), The Crucible, Luigi Pirandello's The Rules Of The Game, Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot and George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.

* The original Russian title of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel known in its English translation as The Possessed is Besy ( Бесы ) ( Russian plural of bes ), i. e., more literally, The Evil Spirits.

Don Siegel, the film's director, and Clint Eastwood picked Robinson for the role after seeing him in a production of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot.

This image of social injustice, so similar to Fyodor Dostoevsky's childhood recollections, was compounded by the behavior of Nekrasov's tyrannical father.

He subsequently featured in Mani Kaul's adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot, Idiot.

Other heroes Erast Fandorin is based upon are Andrei Bolkonski ( from Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace ), Prince Myshkin ( from Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot ) and Pechorin ( from Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time ).

The first LitKicks publication was a digital video, Notes from Underground, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's story of the same name, followed by a community-generated poetry anthology in 2004, Action Poetry, which was nominated for a Blooker Prize.

* BBC Radio 7 broadcast a 4-episode adaptation of " The Idiot " entitled " Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot ," in June 2010.

The Idiot () is a costume drama TV series produced by Russia TV Channel in 2003, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same title.

In a story loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's short novel The Gambler, Nick Nolte plays Lionel Dobie, an acclaimed abstract artist who finds himself unable to paint during the days before the scheduled beginning of a major gallery exhibition of his new work.

Thomas Mann said of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which explores a similar doppelgänger theme, " by no means improved on Edgar Allan Poe's ' William Wilson ,' a tale that deals with the same old romantic motif in a way far more profound on the moral side and more successfully resolving the critical in the poetic ".

The Brothers Karamazov is a 1958 film made by MGM, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same name.

* The Grand Inquisitor, a parable related in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov

* Fyodor Dostoevsky used the epistolary format for his first novel, Poor Folk ( 1846 ), as a series of letters between two friends, struggling to cope with their impoverished circumstances and life in pre-revolution Russia.

He composed The Gambler based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel of the same name, but rehearsals were plagued by problems and the scheduled 1917 première had to be canceled because of the February Revolution.

* The Restoration ( film ), a 1909 film by D. W. Griffith, based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Irtysh River serves as a backdrop in the epilogue of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel Crime and Punishment.

In The Realists, an examination of the work of eight novelists – Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Benito Pérez Galdós, Henry James and Marcel Proust – Snow makes a robust defence of the realistic novel.

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

Crime and Punishment ( Prestupleniye i nakazaniye ) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The town derives its name from the wife of a railroad executive, who reportedly suggested the name " Marfa " after reading the name in the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel The Brothers Karamazov.

The name itself is adopted from the main character of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's first novel Netochka Nezvanova ( 1849 ) and translates appropriately as " nameless nobody.

* Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift has the protagonist, Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, study Chernyshevsky and write the critical biography The Life of Chernychevski which represents Chapter Four of the novel.

( novel ), by Boris Akunin on Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky employed ekphrasis most notably in his novel The Idiot.

* Demons ( novel ), an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky sometimes also called The Possessed.

This inspired Akunin to create a detective novel which nobody would be ashamed to be caught reading, something between the literature of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky and the pulp of modern Russian detective novels.

The Idiot is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

* The Possessed ( novel ), an 1872 novel by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky

The House of the Dead () is a novel published in 1861 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp.

During his years as an assistant director, he worked under the helm of such legendary film directors as Keisuke Sasaki, Yuzo Kawashima, and Akira Kurosawa, whom he worked with in 1951 on the filming of The Idiot, based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The Idiot (, Idiot ) is a novel written by 19th century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

* In 2001, Down House, a tongue-in-cheek modern adaptation / parody of the novel, was filmed by Russian director Roman Kachanov, using the late 1990s Moscow underworld of mafia and drug addicts as the setting ; it featured Fyodor Bondarchuk as the Prince and the co-writer of the script, Ivan Okhlobystin as Rogozhin.

* Fyodor Dostoevsky-The Insulted and Humiliated

Fyodor Dostoevsky published Humiliated and Insulted.

Humiliated and Insulted ( also known in English as The Insulted and Humiliated, or The Insulted and the Injured ) is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1861 in the monthly magazine Vremya.

Tovstonogov was the first who returned Fyodor Dostoevsky into Soviet theater, by his productions of The Insulted and Humiliated ( 1956 in Leningrad Leninsky Komsomol Theater ) and The Idiot ( 1957 in Gorky Theater ).