Fyodor Dostoevsky: "Introduction", an essay from his banned magazine "Vremya", 1861

"A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON RUSSIAN LITERATURE"; a translation from the Russian

Notes on the text: This essay was originally published anonymously by Dostoevsky in 1861, in his short-lived and banned magazine “Vremya” (Time). It is one of five essays written by him that year, th…