Humiliated and Insulted

The most "book" and "literary" novel by Dostoevsky, written after returning from Siberian hard labor. This time could not but affect his ideological and artistic evolution. He brought out of Siberia the belief of the tragic isolation of the advanced Russian intelligentsia from the "soil" and unbelief into the revolutionary path of transforming Russian reality. In the artistic rethinking of the writer, a comprehensive and deep study of the problem of human egoism was born, which exists both in the "classical" - predatory and cynical - form, and in unexpected manifestations: the egoism of sacrificial love and selfishness of suffering. The classic sees a way out of a vicious circle in mercy, love and forgiveness, reminding us of eternal Christian truths