Who is your favorite writer and why?? I don’t know if I know them but I like to hear about them…

I start first….

After giving a lot of thought about this, I chose Dostoyevsky over Nichos Kazantzakis….. I love Dostoyevsky because I believe he (and not Kierkegaard or Nietzsche) was the founder of existentialism… just that he believed individuals by having faith find meaning in life…

In every story that he wrote ( I have read most of it) he visits and discovers every corner of humans mind …

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Abstraction · 61-69, M

Dostoevsky is brilliant.
Russian names. Tell me you didn't have to take to writing a list of who's who with everyone calling them something different.
But he wrote about a single incident in the Brother's Karamazov that made me want to switch my brain off so I wouldn't experience the horror, because I understood it really happened. I've only had that experience a few times. Another time was something I saw. The third time was a story a man told me in Sierra Leone about something that happened in the civil war. I finally understood why people can become catatonic - you shut down part of your mind so you don't face it. For me it was just a temporary coping mechanism. I usually face anything, head on, no flinching, and do what I need to do. It takes something significant to cut through that.
Favourite writer? I'll have to think.

Soossie

@Abstraction

I agree about “The Brothers Karamazov” …

As I mentioned above, Dostoyevsky discovers every corner of human’s mind in different circumstances as if he dissects the mind and bring the result forward to the reader… for me Crime and Punishment and the Idiot were more interesting to read but this doesn’t take anything from the brilliance of the Brothers Karamazov …