Dostoevsky

[dos-tuh-yef-skee, duhs-; Russ. duh-stuh-yef-skyee]

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Fyo·dor Mi·khai·lo·vich

[fyoh-der mi-kahy-luh-vich; Russ. fyaw-duhr myi-khahy-luh-vyich] , 1821–81, Russian novelist.

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Also, Do·sto·yev·sky, Do·sto·ev·ski, Do·sto·yev·ski, Do·stoi·ev·ski.

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Dostoevsky, Dostoyevsky, Dostoevski or Dostoyevski (ˌdɒstɔɪˈɛfskɪ, Russian dəstaˈjɛfskij, ˌdɒstɔɪˈɛfskɪ, Russian dəstaˈjɛfskij, ˌdɒstɔɪˈɛfskɪ, Russian dəstaˈjɛfskij, ˌdɒstɔɪˈɛfskɪ, Russian dəstaˈjɛfskij)

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	Fyodor Mikhailovich (ˈfjɔdər miˈxajləvitʃ). 1821--81, Russian novelist, the psychological perception of whose works has greatly influenced the subsequent development of the novel. His best-known works are Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868), The Possessed (1871), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879--80)

Dostoyevsky, Dostoyevsky, Dostoevski or Dostoyevski

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Dostoevski, Dostoyevsky, Dostoevski or Dostoyevski

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Dostoyevski, Dostoyevsky, Dostoevski or Dostoyevski

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"Even beyond their deaths, the two novelists stand in contrariety. Tolstoy, the foremost heir to the traditions of the epic; Dostoevsky, one of the major dramatic tempers after Shakespeare; Tolstoy, the mind intoxicated with reason and fact; Dostoevsky, the contemner of rationalism, the great lover of paradox; Tolstoy, the poet of the land, of the rural setting and pastoral mood; Dostoevsky, the arch-citizen, the master-builder of the modern metropolis in the province of language; Tolstoy, thirsting for the truth, destroying himself and those about him in excessive pursuit of it; Dostoevsky, rather against the truth than against Christ, suspicious of total understanding and on the side of mystery; Tolstoy, "keeping at all times," in Coleridge's phrase, "in the high road of life"; Dostoevsky, advancing into the labyrinth of the unnatural, into the cellarage and morass of the soul; Tolstoy, like a colossus bestriding the palpable earth, evoking the realness, the tangibility, the sensible entirety of concrete experience; Dostoevsky, always on the verge of the hallucinatory, of the spectral, always vulnerable to daemonic intrusions into what might prove, in the end, to have been merely a tissue of dreams; Tolstoy, the embodiment of health and Olympian vitality; Dostoevsky, the sum of energies charged with illness and possession."

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