Dostoevsky accompiments

[Olga Meerson]

Dostoevsky was 23 years Nietzsche's senior. Although he (D,) died only 9 years prior to Nietzsche, they hardly belong to the same generation. Such things matter, I think. What Dostoevsky's Underground Man says was written when Nietzsche was 20 but Dostoevsky himself was 43. The Underground Man is, allegedly, 40 himself. Of course, the language is similar but learning how to translate the discourse of the Underground Man from Nietzsche is a bit of a backward projection, no? Above all, a caveat: do not teach them as contemporaries. Looking for traces of Nietzsche in Dostoevsky is a fallacy even more common than looking for traces of Freud in him. Traces and interpretive prisms are not the same.
o.m.

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