first of life’s great paradoxes: Out of suffering and defeat often comes victory. The great nineteenth-century novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky experienced this paradox in an unexpected and dramatic way. Enamored with French utopian socialism, the young Russian intellectual attended a meeting that the czar believed was subversive. For that, Dostoyevsky was condemned to eight years of hard labor. After he had been in custody for a time, he learned that his sentence had been changed to execution by firing