Dostoevsky and the struggle against the obvious

This is the strangest description of Dostoevsky, written by the philosopher Leon Chistov, a religious existentialist philosopher, where he writes describing Dostoevsky saying: An old book tells of the angel of death who descends toward the human to separate the soul from the body, that he is covered with eyes. What need does he have for all those eyes? I think they are not his. The angel of death sometimes notices that he arrived very early, and that the end of this person has not yet come; in this case, he does not seize his soul but even does not show it to him, but leaves him a pair of those many eyes that surround his body. Then the person recognizes — in addition to what other humans see and what he himself sees with his natural eyes — new and strange things that he sees differently than they did before, not like how ordinary humans see them, but like how inhabitants of other worlds see them! Certainly, Dostoevsky was one of those who possessed this double perspective. But the question is, when did the angel of death visit him? The most natural assumption is that it happened when he was listening, at the foot of the guillotine, to the reading of the sentence of death. Leon Chistov: Dostoevsky and the Struggle Against Axioms