Humiliated and insulted

The most "bookish" and "literary" novel by Dostoevsky, written after his return from Siberian penal servitude. This time could not but influence his ideological and artistic evolution. He brought from Siberia the conviction of the tragic isolation of the advanced Russian intelligentsia from the "soil" and disbelief in the revolutionary path of transforming Russian reality. In the writer's artistic rethinking, a comprehensive and profound 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 the egoism of suffering. The classic sees a way out of the vicious circle in mercy, love and forgiveness, reminding us of the eternal Christian truths.