What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami: “Dostoyevsky, for instance, wrote two of his most profound novels, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov, in the last few years of his life before his death at age sixty.”
The Rebel by Albert Camus: “the era of Chigalevism begins—proclaimed, in The Possessed, by Verkhovensky, the nihilist who claims the right to choose”
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov: “A copy of Dostoevsky lay open and unread on the floor by Alexei's bed, the desperate characters of The Possessed prophesying doom while Elena slept peacefully.”
Another Country by James Baldwin: “They've got some wild idea out there of making a movie version of The Possessed—The Dostoievski novel”
Floating Clouds by Hayashi Fumiko: “Tomioka had not entirely given up his dream of death. He recalled how, in The Possessed, which he had read in Indochina long ago, Stavrogin carefully prepared for death by smearing a strong silk cord thickly with soap beforehand so that dying would hurt as little as possible. [auto-translated]”