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Welcome to Celebrate Creativity – Episode 444 - Fate, illness, or Deception?
This is the first podcast episode in a three part series dealing with a fascinating individual - the Russian writer Fydor Dostoevsky and his literary treatment of seizure disorders. His works are rich with recurring themes such as morality, free will, nihilism, faith, and the nature of good and evil.
Dostoevsky himself suffered from epilepsy - so it could be argued that his reaction to the condition it's quite different from most Siri set an alarm for five minutes writers - largely because he suffered so many seizures. He he even went out of his way to portray some of his characters - note that I said some of his characters - having seizure disorders and being exemplary people. Today they might be called role models. This is perhaps most true of one of the leading characters of his novel, The Idiot - a character known as Prince Myshkin.
Dostoevsky's Life and Historical Context
Dostoevsky's life was marked by extreme highs and lows, which directly influenced his writing.
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