Human tragedy In Vitchyzna, No. 11, 1981, pp. 182-188.

The article is dedicated to the 160th anniversary of the birth of Fedir Dostoevskyi. Analyzing three plans in Dostoevskyi's work (ground, environment, and earth), the author shows that for Dostoevskyi, the ground is moral values, the environment is external circumstances that put pressure on a person, and the earth is the world of freedom and love. In addition, Popovych reflects on Dostoevskyi's polyphony: it is the result of a subtle sense of the dialectic of social and personal development, as well as the dialectic of alienation in an antagonistic society.