No, only Absurdism
Whenever I read fiction, I typically do it in spurts according to author. This summer, for example, I read the major works of Dostoevsky (minus Demons). I just finished reading The Stranger by Camus, and I think that he may be the target of my next binge-reading episode. The content-length ratio of this book is honestly the greatest of everything I've read. It is an amazing book, whose meaning I think I am just barely beginning to grasp. It's something about morals, moral standards, and sun symbolism. Tomorrow, I'm going to propose to my English teacher that we read it in class. I've had enough of the garbage we've recently read. Like Water for Chocolate is a terrible, terrible book that would be more productive used as heating fuel in Northern Pakistan than read by anyone on earth.
I don't think one could agree with you more than me on both counts. Trashy novel/good fuel. Oh yeah, I read Brothers Karamazov as well for English. And the quote you used actually struck me when I read for the first time in that it reminded of some Islamic traditons that I studied at a religious camp a while back. The topic was morals and virutes or something. Anyway accoriding to one narration, the Holy Prophet (Muhammad) said something like "a person who lies loses the faculty to distinguish between what is truth and what is falsehood". Theres also a seperate event that was narrated that was about a man who felt he sinned too much. He asked the Holy Prophet what was the greatest sin he should give up and the Holy Prophet said lying. The guy gave up lying and after a while he realized he had to give up everything else he did bad because he couldnt lie to any. I'm wasn't sure whether there were Christian traditions similar to those, but it gave me the chills to think that Dostoevsky came up with the same ideas. At least the same ideas from my perspective and I'm not sure that they are obvious enough for any average person to come up with on their own. Its kind of why I liked the book. He didn't hide his position on the debate between faith and atheism/agnosticism, but he wasn't blatant about it either.
Even if Dostoevsky made this concept obvious in his book, that doesn't mean he came up with it. It's quite possible that Dostoevsky was familiar with the part of Islam, liked it, and thus included it in his book. In fact, if I had the background you (Khalid) do, then I would automatically assume so. The similarities are too obvious for it to be a completely original thought, in my opinion.