Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky: five-book

The concept of "five books" goes back to the Bible and means five books - five parts, whose significance for mankind is difficult to overestimate, for they are the beginning of Divine revelation to man. And what is "the great five-book of Dostoevsky"? We understand together in its role and significance for literature.

Dostoevsky and the Truth

Before I start talking about the novels that Dostoevsky wrote (the five books), I want to say a few words about the author's personality. It is impossible to deny the scale of the figure of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. His work has been an inexhaustible source for scientific research and discoveries of linguists, literary critics, philosophers, psychologists, filmmakers and many others for a hundred and fifty years. All this speaks about the genius of the writer, but even more - that until today, some main secret of his personality, soul and especially his words has not been solved. However, it will not, can not and should not be solved, because it contains the truth, the top of which, like a floating iceberg, is open to the eye, and the underwater part is incomprehensible. But it is in this incomprehensibility that the essence of Dostoevsky's truth and essence lies. She, like his mysterious word, penetrating through the mind and feelings, grants both the deepest suffering and great joy, and reveals the soul of man to God. After it, as well as after the books of Fyodor Mikhailovich, especially after the novels of the five books, it is impossible to remain the same. Is not this the revelation of God?

Main ideas

We continue to talk about the works that Dostoevsky wrote (the five books). What unites these novels? First of all, they were written one after another in the last period of the writer's life from 1866 to 1880. Further and most importantly, they are based on two ideas - God and Russia. It can not be said that Fyodor Mikhailovich did not address these questions before. On the contrary, he bore them for a long time, "paused", sought an ideal form for their expression, until, finally, "Crime and Punishment" appeared - the first book of the series "The Great Five-Book of Dostoevsky" (the list follows). But this did not stop the search. The great writer unfolds and goes in a different direction. As a result, a new novel, "Idiot", is released. Dostoevsky himself said that he was not happy with his novel, since he did not express a tenth of what he had accumulated in his soul. But at the same time he did not deny it, and he loved it, and continued to search for perfection ...

New trip

We continue the list of books included in the five books of Dostoevsky, in order. In 1872, the novel "The Possessed" appeared, to which the writer had high hopes. In it he wanted to see only an exponent of his basic ideas, albeit at the expense of artistry. Later this work will be considered one of his most significant works, a warning novel, a novel-prophecy, which, unfortunately, will become a reality.

Further in the magazine "Otechestvennye zapiski" the novel "Teenager" (1875) is published. And concludes the series, which Dostoevsky wrote (five books), the most important and powerful work is The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Over him, he worked for two long years, and in it, according to literary critics, embodied one of the ideas - the stages of "spiritual growth of man." According to the writer, each person, and Dostoevsky is not an exception, in one way or another passes through three successive stages in the formation of personality - immaturity (Dmitry), denial of God (Ivan), high spirituality (Alesha).

main characters

Who is in the focus of Dostoevsky's attention? The main characters of the series, written by Dostoevsky (the five books), are ordinary people, striving for happiness. But unlike Pushkin and Gogol's "little man," these landlords, students and nobles are full of strength and determination to change themselves and the world around. Happiness in their understanding is not a momentary pleasure, not satisfaction of their earthly needs, whims and desires, but a search for universal, all-embracing, all-human happiness. Often in this aspiration they make mistakes, they break the law of God. But punishment and repentance are inevitable. Purification is inconceivable without curbing pride, without giving up one's own self, killing a personal "Napoleon" and the subsequent humility. Many critics accused the writer of excessive cruelty to his "charges", which he subjected to horrible tortures and "unnecessary" tortures. However, Feodor Mikhailovich himself, having experienced the weight of the fall and repentance, asserts in the novels of the five books that without this the path to truth, salvation is impossible. He is not the creator of the spiritual laws of the world. They were discovered by the Savior himself, and he only reminds people about them.