Realist psychologists. Recommendations?

[Theunderground]

I am a huge fan of fyodor Dostoevsky and admire his realism,humour,ideas,style and psychological insight.
Any other authors who write in this way? Voltaire writes very humorously on profound issues but he uses 'imaginative' unrealistic and 'fantastic' scenarios to illustrate his points.
Outside of Stendhals 'the red and the black' I havent read anything to compare with the realism of 'notes from the underground' or 'the house of the dead'.

[Kyriakos]

Have you read Guy De Maupassant and Knut Hamsun?

They might be what you like :)

[Pecksie]

Elizabeth Bowen, perhaps?

[OrphanPip]

Psychological realism is big at the end of the 19th century, Henry James being the big name in English that I can think of.

Realism in general tends to characterize most 19th century literature: George Eliot, Balzac, Zola, Flaubert, etc.

[kelby_lake]

Psychological realism is big at the end of the 19th century, Henry James being the big name in English that I can think of.


I'd go for Henry James too.

[Theunderground]

I have just read a selection of short stories of GUY de M.
WOW. Absolutely fantastic psychologist. Different from Fyodor D,but to be honest more valuable to me,as GDM potrays 'normal' people from the point of view of their actual behaviour and real motivations rather than the hidden stream of conciousness of FDs characters.The intellectual battles between different ideologies are also absent. (all the more for the better.) GDM seems to me to be more representative of actual life,and his characters are exactly what you find in real life.
Theres a new top gun in town.

[Kyriakos]

He is my favourite too :)

[Ane]

Yes, DO read Henry James, I'm currently writing my BA project on the Wings of the Dove, he truly is an amazing impressionist