Is Dostoevsky postmodern? A lit major in one of my classes today

Is Homer Neo-Classical?

>>7370361
No, but Notes from Underground is a touchstone for postmodernism.

No he's Modern. Early modern.

>>7370361
Elaborate. How?

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>>7370361
No he is thoroughly, thoroughly realist. Part of the tradition beginning with Dickens and ending with Flaubert and Proust.

The only argument I could think of for that grouping is that he incorporates so proto-Freudian psychological realist stuff of the sort that became typical of Modernism. Even that is a stretch though when you compare him to real quasi-Modernists like Proust, and even more of stretch when you try to shove him further on into the kind of pan-cultural, socially constructed realities of people like late Joyce and Gaddis creating for their characters.

>>7370372
what, you mean that book just skips all of modernism and goes straight into post-modernism? that's stupid and i would like to read your reasons behind the statement

>>7370361
Dostoevsky one of the first modernist authors with his foray into the psychological. James Joyce was of the opinion that "he is the man more than any other who has created modern prose".

>>7370418
No, that's not what I mean. I just mean that it was read by and probably influenced many postmodern writers. Its unreliable iconoclast narrator, heightened self-awareness, rejection of social mores and assumed universal truths, and bitter regard toward consciousness and the modern human condition are all popular characteristics in postmodern writing. But Notes From Underground is not postmodern literature.

>>7370371
本质上,这

who cares family desu

It can't be postmodern if it was written before the end of WW2.

>>7370361
Hey, Freddy isn't THAT bad.