Modern Dostoevsky: as society and pop culture, they speak of classics through memes, tweets, stand-up and tiktoki
On the 200th anniversary of the writer, we tell how he and his books became a symbol of depression and the subject of jokes. “I think, the most important, most indigenous spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, always and indefatigable, everywhere and in everything,” Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky reasoned in his “writer's diary”.