> I can see how one may reason non-westerness of Dostoyevski I can’t. Dostoyevski’s Russia is still very much European. It’s culturally a lot closer to what wa

> I can see how one may reason non-westerness of Dostoyevski I can’t. Dostoyevski’s Russia is still very much European. It’s culturally a lot closer to what was produced in my own Western European country at the time than anything written in the USA at the same period. But the very idea of the western civilisation is dubious anyway.