Excerpt from Fyodor Dostoevsky a Critical Study, Vol. 5
"I do not speak," Dostoevsky in the famous speech on Pushkin which was the end of the work of his life, "as a literary critic; I am only thinking of what may be for us prophetic in his work."
It would be foolish for an English writer to attempt a purely literary criticism of Dostoevsky"s work; this book also professes only to think of what may be for us prophetic in it. Dostoevsky is a phenomenon which has lately burst upon our astonished minds, one towards which an attitude must be determined quickly, almost at the peril of our souls. Our English literature has lately emerged from a period during which French influence upon it has been palpable. But the influence of the French has been slight and mainly confined to externals; there has not been sufficient force in the French literature of the nineteenth century to make its influence more deeply felt. Dostoevsky is a different matter.
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