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This Substack post is a summary of an essay by Joseph Brodsky about Dostoevsky — but the post does not link or name the essay.

The essay is named "The Power of the Elements" and it can be read here on Google Books:

The author mentioned the name of the book in the very first paragraph.

Yes, it seems the essay inspired the post and it quotes excerpts from the essay but also has also some nice additional commentary.

The book in which they read the essay but not it seems the essay itself.