Dostoevsky
or Do·sto·yev·sky, Do·sto·ev·ski, Do·sto·yev·ski, Do·stoi·ev·ski
Fyo·dor Mi·khai·lo·vich [fyoh-der mi-kahy-luh-vich; Russian fyaw-duhrmyi-khahy-luh-vyich], /ˈfyoʊ dər mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ; Russian ˈfyɔ dər myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/, 1821–81, Russian novelist.
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How to use Dostoevsky in a sentence
Lewis Carroll, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, and Vincent van Gogh all likely experienced the condition.
The Seizure Medication That Turns You Into a Poet | Cat Ferguson | September 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe said, “Mel, you should read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Gogol.”
Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview | Alex Belth | February 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOfficials are paid to understand something about capabilities; as to motives, nobody is paid to be Dostoyevsky.
White Nights By Fyodor Dostoyevsky White Nights is also an elegy to a love that never was.
Book Bag: André Aciman’s Favorite Novellas of Unconsummated Loves | André Aciman | January 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTPerhaps I could be as overwhelming a writer as Dostoyevsky, yet I am not an ecstatic, gratulant epileptic like him.
Dostoyevsky, who shared some of the illusions of the Slavophiles, speaks of Europe as "a land of sacred miracles."
Contemporary Russian Novelists | Serge PerskyAnd the walls of the cellar heard the reading of the works of Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Karamzine, and others.
Contemporary Russian Novelists | Serge PerskyDostoyevsky is the painter of the depths of the human soul, which he portrays with almost supernatural acuteness.
Contemporary Russian Novelists | Serge PerskyThe same is true of Dostoyevsky, of the poets Nekrassov, Nadson, and others.
The Social Significance of the Modern Drama | Emma GoldmanI should indeed put the matter the other way round, and say that in the last act of Tristram, Wagner is as great as Dostoyevsky.
An Outline of Russian Literature | Maurice Baring
British Dictionary definitions for Dostoevsky
Dostoyevsky, Dostoevski or Dostoyevski
/ (ˌdɒstɔɪˈɛfskɪ, Russian dəstaˈjɛfskij) /
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)
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