DAS LEBENSWERK DES FËDOR M. DOSTOJEVSKIJ IM KONTEXT DER EPILEPSIE

Abstract

Medical doctors and friends alike have confirmed that Dostoevsky suffered from epilepsy. It was an essential part of the poet's life, his selfdetermination and literary creativity. Thus, he was able to appreciate all the ups and downs of human life, for example, in the character and ambivalence of Prince Myshkin. The novel became a paradigm of modernism in which medicine and literature are no longer contradictions, but offer an analytic view of human existence.