Rose Miller provides us with a review of great Fyodor Dostoievski’s work, focused on the art of writing as a way of understanding human condition, and analyses the link between this author’s life and his work by exploring his most remarkable and characteristic features, the topics frequently used in his books, the profile of some valuable approaches to his literary style made by critics and, finally, a study about Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.