In world literature, Dostoevsky is rightfully recognized as an unrivaled genius of psychological drama. "Humiliated and Insulted" is his first novel written after hard labor.
An engrossing plot, gripping entanglements of destinies and life stories—base behavior and nobility, love and hate are brought to the limit, to the last line. Through the unimaginable boiling over of passions, the characters are tested for their humanity.
"The most crushed last man is also a man—and your brother is his name"—that is the central idea of the novel and the leitmotif of all Dostoevsky’s work.