Secular Dostoevsky ?

The ultimate question for me:
What is the NON-RELIGIOUS alternative to Dostoevsky?

my diary desu

Anton Chekhov was raised in Orthodox Church and knew doctrine well, but IIRC he was an atheist or at least agnostic.

Certainly you will find a lot of Dostoevsky's vodka swilling serfs in Chekhov in a more succinct form.

Brett Easton Ellis

Joseph Conrad

Mихaил Apцыбaшeв

Small prose essentially.

A fedora

why would i give a shit about his religion ( i am an atheist myself=?

He was anti-Semitic, wasn't he?