Can you read Dostoyevsky without any knowledge of philosophy/psychology

Yeah, Dosto didn't know a whole lot of philosophy himself. You should know some bible stuff though

>>8899104
An overview of Lenin is probably important for Notes For the Underground

Yes, OP.

I'm a graduate in philosophy and currently studying psychology, I have some knowledge of the field.I read his books before graduation and understood well.
Of course it helps to have a greater knowledge, but nothing relevant to an ordinary reader.

>>8899107
Don't you mean Chernyshevsky?
And no, not really. A little bit helps but it's not important.

>>8899122
>Chernyshevsky
oh god
incredible ideas and concepts but an awful writer of fiction.

>>8899107

A familiarity with socialism, its ascendancy during Dostoyevsky's time, and Dosto's feud with Turgenev are helpful for reading Demons

>>8899098
i read most of dostohacksky around the age of 12. now i did not appreciate any of it much but my ignorance of phil and psy wasnt to blame

>>8899098
I read Crime and Punishment and loved it - went away and read up on Russian Nihilism, Populism, Terrorism, Slavophilism, Westernism and all the major philosophical strand that he plays on, read The Brothers Karamazov and was blown away.

So you can definitely enjoy Dostoevsky without knowledge of philosophy, but if you have some knowledge it makes the whole thing so much more worth it.

>>8899133
>incredible ideas
Fuck off Lenin.

>>8899176
12 years
Gulag