Thank you for viewing! This is a long one. I don't think I mentioned how Dostoevsky's work, his characters, remind me of great paintings. However, if I did, and I'm too tired now to find the place, I was referring to El Greco and Van Eyck or at least I had them in mind in terms of colorful portraits with deep shadow. This balance of light and dark is just like Dostoevsky's best characters to me. I used the following essays and books for this review: Dostoevsky's Mock Apocalypse by Dale E Peterson Tragic Rites In Dostoevsky's The Possessed by Joyce Carol Oates Dostoevsky: A Writer In His Time by Joseph Frank =asc_df_0691155992/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312069097411&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17594759164875826083&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9004546&hvtargid=aud-801738734305:pla-451668940468&psc=1