Sunday, July 27, 2008

the influence of Fyodor Doestoevesky

The nineteenth century Russian Novelist Fyodor Doestoevesky was a huge influence on me in terms of storytelling. With great books like The Idiot, Crime and Punishment and the Brothers Karamazov Doestoevesky employed a bold experimental style of story telling in which characters burst forth from every page. This is in sharp contrast to previous Russian novelists like Leo Tolstoi. The latter employed an old, stable omniscient style of storytelling. Tolstoi was the past. Dostoevesky was the future.
Seraph

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