| 单词 | Dostoyevsky |
| 例句 | My secret journal was an old hardback copy of The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, in which I spent hours writing in a tiny script between the tightly printed lines. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “I don’t know where you get all these Dostoyevsky sorts of ideas.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “What do you think of Dostoyevsky, Bobby?” someone queried. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The works he admired most were Dante’s; those he despised most were Dostoyevsky’s. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z But his grandfather had recently gone blind, and he had requested Ashoke’s company specifically, to read him The Statesman in the morning, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy in the afternoon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Everything I had written was squeezed between Dostoyevsky's great lines, as if my words were his discards. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z You’ve written at length about Russian writers—Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Babel, and others. This Week in Fiction: Elif Batuman on Writing Fiction vs. Nonfiction 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z It was a punishment for Dostoyevsky’s characters to be tormented by all those voices, internal and external; now we call it being connected. Lauren Oyler’s ‘Fake Accounts’ Captures the Relentlessness of Online Life 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z It works pretty well, although since translations are quite literal, I wouldn’t use it for reading Dostoyevsky. On the Road, Finding Savings on Your Phone 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z In one letter he says that the yet-to-be-finished “Gallery” is “like Dostoyevsky, Andrew Marvell and Voltaire.” Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z A meeting between two of the greatest literary figures, Dickens and Dostoyevsky, is one that tends to hold in the imagination. Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z With a friend struggling through Dostoyevsky's tale, the erudite Holliday advises him not to worry about all those Russian names. 'Doc' is a fresh look at a unique Western figure 2011-05-03T11:31:13Z “The Gambler,” Sergei Prokofiev’s masterpiece based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, maintains a plot of captivity that reflects the novelist’s own struggle with a gambling addiction. A Fall Season of Debuts, Returns and Farewells 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z “Marcellus Shale,” said to have been inspired by Dostoyevsky’s “Demons,” includes some inventive touches, though. Theater Review: ‘Marcellus Shale,’ a Look at Fracking, at La MaMa 2013-05-30T19:24:18Z They dress up as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and offer canned greetings to Soviet citizens. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Birmingham ably guides us through the first few decades of Dostoyevsky’s astonishing life, paying particular heed to his time amid reformist circles in St. Petersburg. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z “Even the real geniuses, like Dostoyevsky, entertained,” she said. Belva Plain, Novelist of Jewish-American Life, Dies at 95 2010-10-17T18:00:00Z As an adolescent reader I was drawn to intense, anguished, dramatic writers like Dostoyevsky and Celine. Phillip Lopate Is No Fan of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z He was also devoted to his Russian-born maternal grandfather, who read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov in the back of his candy store. Paul Mazursky, Director Who Captured a Changing America, Dies at 84 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z I’ve seen Dostoyevsky’s deck of cards, read the first drafts of Roosevelt’s Day of Infamy speech, stared down the field from Virginia Woolf’s writing cottage toward the river where she drowned. Chasing Spirits: Mexico City’s House Museums 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z He gave the rest of us a reading list that was heavily weighted toward Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z He said that when he was 74, he started re-reading his favorite novels by authors Ernest Hemingway, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and others, and then re-read his own novels. Author Philip Roth says he is done with writing 2012-11-09T23:15:30Z “When you read Dostoyevsky, why aren’t you calling it social science?” he replied. Newton Harrison, a Founder of the Eco-Art Movement, Dies at 89 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Any sort of book will do, from a Dostoyevsky to a Jennifer Egan, and from diet guides to the Kama Sutra. Down to the Sea Again, Impersonating Writers 2011-07-01T16:12:05Z But ultimately Mr. Stein’s “Demons” was distinguished only by its length and its fidelity to the letter of Dostoyevsky’s novel. | 'The Demons': Peter Stein Takes Dostoyevsky to Governors Island 2010-07-11T23:13:00Z He is known for marathon productions, including a 12-hour theatrical version of Dostoyevsky’s “Demons,” staged on Governors Island this summer as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. Director Says He Left Met Production in Visa Spat 2010-09-03T22:21:00Z I had surrendered myself to the large, general world of fiction, and at the time I’m speaking of loved certain writers extravagantly: Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Mann, Kafka and Proust most of all. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Which might be fine — this is, after all, a response to Dostoyevsky — except that “Idiot” doesn’t offer anything coherent in their place. Review: An ‘Idiot,’ Telling a Tale 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z He gave bad marks to Shakespeare, George Sand and Oscar Wilde, and good marks to Homer, Dickens and Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Don’t want to have to choose between Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, but if I had to, I’d choose Tolstoy because reading Dostoyevsky is a little like voluntarily contracting a fever. How Ursula K. Le Guin Fooled the Poet Robert Hass 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Scott called it “long and dark: long like a novel by Dostoyevsky or Dreiser, dark like a painting by Rembrandt.” The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z And yet Julien manages to wrest souvenirs of happiness from her childhood: Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2; Arthur, her beloved piebald pony; and “The Idiot,” by Dostoyevsky. A Memoir of a Childhood Crushed by a Despotic Father 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z He sees echoes of “Crime and Punishment” here, and thinks Clark was well aware of Dostoyevsky: One of his pie-in-the-sky plans was to rework Constance Garnett’s translations of the great Russian novels. Books of The Times: Walter Kirn’s Memoir About Befriending a Fraud 2014-03-17T21:29:53Z Sometimes the results are austere to the point of starvation, as in his bare-bones 50-minute version of Dostoyevsky’s “Grand Inquisitor” several years ago. Theater Review: ‘The Suit’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-21T23:45:57Z One of her last film roles was in “The Gambler” a 1998 adaptation of a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story, in which she appeared with Michael Gambon and Dominic West. First Actor To Win Consecutive Oscars Dies 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z They were there trying to make a movie out of “The Idiot” by Dostoyevsky. Philip Glass and John Adams on a Bowie-Inspired New Symphony 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Stephen Moss meets with this elusive, academic mischief maker, Arnold Harvey, the man behind the Dickens and Dostoyevsky hoax, and the events that led to his invention of multiple fictitious academic personas. Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z Reviewers of “My Struggle” frequently praised Knausgaard’s essayistic talent, and readers who enjoyed the novel’s digressions on, say, Dostoyevsky or Paul Celan will find here the same mingling of critical and personal reflection. In Searching Essays, Knausgaard Extols the Freedom and Limitations of Art 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z He’ll gladly neglect the endless task of computerizing his shelf-busting inventory to talk with you about his beloved 19th-century authors like George Eliot and Dostoyevsky, or his fine selection of Jewish theology. In Pittsburgh, a Bookstore Where ‘Freewheeling Curiosity’ Reigns 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z “Winter Sleep” was inspired by the short stories of Chekhov, as well as works by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Cannes Film Festival: From Writers' Fights Came 'Winter Sleep' 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Turgenev thus preceded Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy as “the best-known Russian writer in the West,” though he championed both of them in France. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z His Russian lawyer earlier this week left him a shopping bag with books by Dostoyevsky, Chekhov and Nikolai Karamzin to help him learn about Russian reality. ArtsBeat: Russia for Beginners: A Literary Course for Edward Snowden 2013-07-25T23:16:45Z Someone like Bellow probably had other ambitions, Roth writes, “inspired by your European masters, by Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Proust, Kafka, and such ambitions don’t include writing about the neighbors gabbing on the back porch.” The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z It was there that he met and married a fellow laborer, raised three children and read Charlotte Brontë, Dostoyevsky, Hugo and Melville. A Novel From North Korea Offers Glimpses of the Everyday 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Do ‘ecstatic’ seizures, such as Dostoyevsky had, play a part in generating our sense of the divine?” Books of The Times: ‘Hallucinations,’ by Oliver Sacks 2012-11-26T22:26:01Z For a more visceral approach Thomas, Olesya and I went on a pilgrimage to the Sennaya Square area, where Dostoyevsky wrote “Crime and Punishment” and where the novel is set. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z I hesitate because it was such a disturbing force when I first watched it — disturbing and terrible, but with the pathos and religiosity of a Dostoyevsky novel. Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z My mother couldn’t get around the fact that I wouldn’t try and be Chaucer or Dostoyevsky. Mary Bly (aka Eloisa James) Talks to TIME About Her Literary Double Life 2012-05-18T11:00:52Z Dostoyevsky in Italian, directed by a German — it sounds loopy enough to be brilliant. | 'The Demons': Peter Stein Takes Dostoyevsky to Governors Island 2010-07-11T23:13:00Z Later, libraries and secondhand bookshops helped him build his own “house of books” composed of Poe and Baudelaire, Balzac and Dostoyevsky. His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Waiting for us above ground was a statue of Dostoyevsky, bigger than life, grimly slouching, eyes cast down, tension in his legs and in the hand resting on his thigh. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The book is a great work of art because of the cataclysmic Dostoyevsky. Ian Frazier Wishes Somebody Would Write About the World’s Largest Beaver Dam 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Nabokov thought that Dostoyevsky was improved in English. Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Stein’s reverence for Dostoyevsky’s richly veined and deeply funny novel about the moral chaos in a country on the eve of transformation certainly came through clearly. | 'The Demons': Peter Stein Takes Dostoyevsky to Governors Island 2010-07-11T23:13:00Z In that richness, as well as its theme, “The Woman Who Left” is of a piece with Mr. Diaz’s equally measured “Norte, the End of History,” adapted from Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” Lav Diaz and Pedro Costa: Slow Cinema on the Cutting Edge 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z It has been said — often credited to John Gardner but sometimes Dostoyevsky — that there are only two plots in literature: A character goes on a trip, or a stranger comes to town. A Recovery Journey That Isn’t 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z It is where Norman Mailer was taken after stabbing his second wife, supposedly because she’d told him he’d never be as good as Dostoyevsky. Review: ‘Bellevue’ Celebrates a Hospital Not Crazy, but Compassionate 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Across the landing from the apartment was a stylish exhibition where spot-lit materials about Dostoyevsky glowed in the dark. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z In the 1970s and ’80s, he spent much of his time illustrating books by classic Russian writers, notably Dostoyevsky. Ilya Glazunov, Painter Entranced by Russia’s Past, Dies at 87 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z I’ve always loved stories about gamblers: Walter Tevis’s “The Hustler,” and the film adapted from it, and Don Carpenter’s several novels and stories with pool and poker games, and the Dostoyevsky book, and some others. This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Lethem on the Poignance of Backgammon 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The title, “The Idiot” — as with “The Possessed,” cribbed from Dostoyevsky — seems like an unfair indictment of gentle, hardworking Selin, but at its root, “idiot” is a benign word, even a strangely sweet one. An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, it also reminded me of why I always liked Dostoyevsky a lot better than Tolstoy, so he’s up next. What We’re Reading This Summer 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Dostoyevsky created them; Northrop Frye wrote about them. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Everyone could sense that Russia was on a collision course with itself, and few feared the potential outcome more than Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Stenographer Who Married Dostoyevsky — and Saved Him From Ruin 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z In a letter to a friend, Dostoyevsky wrote that the main thing about his gambler “is that all his vitality, his strength, his impetus, his courage, have gone into roulette.” ‘The Gambler’ Stars Mark Wahlberg Indulging in a Habit 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z It was the kind of oscillation that Dostoyevsky knew well. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Though I can only read him in translation, I think Dostoyevsky is an extraordinarily clumsy and slipshod writer. John Banville, the Contemporary Novelist Who Avoids Contemporary Novels 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Dostoyevsky’s novels seem to me physically and emotionally claustrophobic, even if spiritually far-reaching. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z In “Dostoevsky in Love,” published earlier this year, Alex Christofi combined genres, plucking lines from Dostoyevsky’s fiction and training them across a trellis of biographical fact. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The endless revisitation suggests something that Dostoyevsky himself may have appreciated. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Eliot, Gustave Flaubert and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, their apartment felt like a secular shrine to Tudor England, with shelves of books on Cromwell and his contemporaries, and titles about medieval fashion, food and metallurgy. For Hilary Mantel, There’s No Time Like the Past 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z This book tells the story behind “Crime and Punishment,” a work of literary innovation whose publication marked a turning point for both Dostoyevsky and the history of the novel. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Somewhere behind looms Dostoyevsky at his worst, and still further back there is old Eugene Sue, to whom the melodramatic Russian owed so much. Review: ‘Nausea,’ by Jean-Paul Sartre 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Does the argument cause you to rethink your view of Dostoyevsky or Mr. Allen? ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: Understanding Dostoyevsky Courtesy of Woody Allen 2011-09-13T17:21:46Z But next to Birmingham’s rich, detailed narration of Dostoyevsky’s life, with all of its paradoxes and tortured ambivalences, Lacenaire’s extreme self-regard quickly becomes predictable, even a bit tedious. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Two days later we had the chance to visit the place where this book was written — Dostoyevsky’s last apartment, now a museum. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Diaz has explored this kind of transcultural and trans-historical cross-pollination before, notably in “Norte, the End of History,” which drew on Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” Review: ‘The Woman Who Left’ Is an Epic, Intimate Tale of Injustice 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z In genealogical terms, “Lurid & Cute” lives on the crowded tree that springs from Dostoyevsky’s “Notes From Underground.” ‘Lurid & Cute,’ a Novel by Adam Thirlwell 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov, who found Dostoyevsky “mediocre,” explored similar themes of moral quandary and mental anguish in his polarizing landmark work, “Lolita.” Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z I also bought a collection of short stories by Dostoyevsky. How Bibliophiles Flirt 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z She teamed up with Mr. Kurosawa for a second time in 1951 in “The Idiot,” based on the Dostoyevsky novel. Setsuko Hara, Japanese Star of Films by Ozu and Kurosawa, Is Dead at 95 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z In other pieces, we get a sense of Lem’s views on literary taxonomy, as when he claims that a reader interested in crime should read Dostoyevsky but not Agatha Christie. The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z “The movie is long and dark: long like a novel by Dostoyevsky or Dreiser, dark like a painting by Rembrandt,” A.O. What's on TV Wednesday: ‘The Irishman’ and ‘Julie & Julia’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Most crippling for the production’s success, however, was the odd draining of color from Dostoyevsky’s boldly drawn creations. | 'The Demons': Peter Stein Takes Dostoyevsky to Governors Island 2010-07-11T23:13:00Z Gardner Smith, a precocious student of literature, read the same novelists as most aspiring writers in mid-century America: Hemingway and Faulkner, Proust and Dostoyevsky. “How Does It Feel To Be a White Man?”: William Gardner Smith’s Exile in Paris 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Batuman’s search for something more from literature than “brisk verbs and vivid nouns” led her, swooning but alert, into the arms of the great Russian writers: Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Babel. 2010-02-16T22:32:00Z With the exception of Henry James, most nineteenth-century novelists—be they Balzac, Dickens or Dostoyevsky—have disdained their wealthy characters, tending to burden them with equal parts animal cunning and moral laxity. The Rich in Fiction 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z This pseudo-expressionist folly, based on the early Dostoyevsky novella, features a general atmosphere of looming paranoia and characters walking down endless corridors, accompanied by vague howls. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z When I was in my teens I liked Russian novels: Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z It’s a predicament worthy of Dostoyevsky, and it’s an especially gruesome fate given that she was the one who conceived and pushed for the scheme against Howard. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 12 Recap: Hit the Road 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Some guests recalled that the point of no return came when she told her husband that he was not as good as Dostoyevsky. Adele Mailer, Artist Who Married Norman Mailer, Dies at 90 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z This was and is a visionary nonfiction epic written by an artist in the Russian Orthodox, old-regime tradition of Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The emblematic experience of my summer of sturm und drang will surely be the nine-hour adaptation of — yep! — a Dostoyevsky novel presented by the Lincoln Center Festival. It?s Been a Gloomy Summer on New York Stages 2010-07-28T17:57:00Z A youth spent with Dostoyevsky, Flaubert and Tolstoy “doesn’t necessarily make you a comedian,” she said. How Nicole Kidman Learned to Love Playing Lucille Ball 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Which brings us to the kernel of truth at the heart of Dostoyevsky Dad’s complaint. Beauty and the Beasts 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Chapter 12 seemed to me to be Rooney’s modern riposte to Dostoyevsky’s “Grand Inquisitor”; Chapter 14 could be her update and nod to a 19th-century British sense and sensibility. Sally Rooney’s Riposte, Ralph Nader’s Candidacy and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z After our visit Thomas said, “Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky were on different paths to the same destination.” Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Two of this production’s most haunting vignettes are set to Dostoyevsky’s words. Bodies in Pain, Protest and Resistance 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Or Dostoyevsky — ‘I don’t like that guy very much.’ Artist Who Inspired Kanye West’s ‘Famous’ Video: ‘I Was Really Speechless’ 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z And then there’s the man himself, whose rail-thin physique, storm of dark hair and penchant for black tends to draw analogies to a Dostoyevsky character. He Changed ‘Oklahoma!’ But ‘Oklahoma!’ Hasn’t Changed Him. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Forgery and imitation in classic literature are the themes in two fascinating pieces this week – from Dostoyevsky to Shakespeare. Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z “Yes,” she replied, “But Dostoyevsky liked to use real-life places in his books.” Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The area was poor when Dostoyevsky lived there, and the canals that surrounded it on three sides stank. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z I was never assigned a German or Russian author ever and wound up loving Dostoyevsky and Hesse, reading everything by them I could get my hands on. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z “Book of Numbers” also shares some literary DNA with classic stories by Poe, Nabokov and Dostoyevsky about doppelgängers and doubles, a theme that Mr. Cohen felt was ripe for reworking in the Internet age. Nothing to Hide and Nowhere to Hide It in Joshua Cohen’s Internet Novel 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z But he continued to direct elsewhere, and his adaptation of the Dostoyevsky novel “The Possessed” was presented as part of a celebration of his 95th birthday. Yuri Lyubimov, Experimental Stage Director, Dies at 97 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z I found Visit Petersburg, the city’s official tourism portal, a source for useful Fyodor Dostoyevsky intel. Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Dostoyevsky’s depiction of dissatisfied, bored or drifting men whose hunger for change and meaning is exploited for evil ends can be seen as a comment on the susceptibility of similarly unexceptional young men today. | 'The Demons': Peter Stein Takes Dostoyevsky to Governors Island 2010-07-11T23:13:00Z To see the show among Dostoyevsky fans was to watch an audience move from excited to perplexed to annoyed. Review: ‘Field Guide’ Brings Standup to a Dostoyevsky Downer 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z After much hesitation — “Baudelaire or Strindberg? Flaubert or Dostoyevsky?” — he finally settles on just two, the Bible and “The Communist Manifesto.” His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z In the opening pages of the novel, a character called Gohtaro quotes Dostoyevsky: “The most difficult thing in life is to live and not lie.” Hope Gained and Lost, in New Fiction From Around the World 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z When the mad protagonist in Dostoyevsky’s “Notes from Underground” insists on the freedom of believing that two times two equals five, he’s plainly gone too far. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z When confronted, my husband cheated and claimed to be for Nikolai Gogol, but later admitted to being partial to Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Nobody is expected to plop down amid the dunes, slather on the SPF 15 and crack open Dostoyevsky. It?s Been a Gloomy Summer on New York Stages 2010-07-28T17:57:00Z Throw in Rimbaud and Dostoyevsky and I was an absurdly premature powder keg and felt I should look in a far field. A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “I thought I was going to be, like, Dostoyevsky, or something, which is funny.” Ilaria Urbinati: The Stylist for the Quieter Half of the Red Carpet 2014-04-23T19:46:57Z I was obsessed with Dostoyevsky, at like 15, 16. Meet Maria Bakalova, the Breakout Star of the ‘Borat’ Sequel 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z She dreams of its becoming a truly national publication or printing an undiscovered story by Dostoyevsky. Uzoamaka Maduka Leaves a Paper Trail With the American Reader 2013-01-02T22:14:17Z I like the Russians, the Chekhov short stories, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Bruce Springsteen: By the Book 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Woodruff and Mr. Camp, who adapted Dostoyevsky’s “Notes From Underground” in an earlier Yale Rep production, closely follow Fassbinder’s script, written in response to the suicide of a lover. Theater Review: ‘In a Year With 13 Moons,’ Directed by Robert Woodruff 2013-05-09T21:08:43Z The previous one, in 2018, was a towering adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s epic novel “Infinite Jest”; before that he tackled works by Dostoyevsky, Chekhov and William Carlos Williams. At Salzburg Festival, Directing Slow and Fast 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Adapted from the 1846 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, this dark dramedy follows Simon’s futile attempt to adopt his doppelgänger’s likable traits until the torment eventually drives him mad. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Young Sheldon’ and ‘The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper’ 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z “I have always thought that what happens in this room is like the Dostoyevsky novels,” Ms. Perel, 60, said of her private practice. Podcast & Carol & Ted & Alice 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z I put the children to sleep by reading extracts of Dostoyevsky and Holderlin. A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgård – digested read 2013-04-21T17:30:01Z Dostoyevsky was hostile to Western rationalism and liberalism. ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: Understanding Dostoyevsky Courtesy of Woody Allen 2011-09-13T17:21:46Z Then, like something out of Dostoyevsky, he is spared: Zakrevsky himself is taken in. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z But it was not to everyone's tastes – one Guardian writer described it as making "Big Brother look like Dostoyevsky" – and it caused controversy after it was accused of stereotyping Italian-Americans. MTV buffs up Jersey Shore for UK as Geordie Shore 2011-01-24T18:42:45Z Dostoyevsky’s intense, expressionist novel was paradoxically sapped of its dimensions and flattened into the pedestrian. | 'The Demons': Peter Stein Takes Dostoyevsky to Governors Island 2010-07-11T23:13:00Z We all read Chekhov and Gogol and Dostoyevsky and all the giants; we read them in translation, and it was coherent for us, and it acted upon us. Man Booker Winners Agree: Translating Jokes Is Hard 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Richard Ayoade, the versatile actor and filmmaker best known for his co-starring work on “The IT Crowd,” takes on corporate dronery in a very different key in this wickedly funny adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella. ‘The Future,’ ‘Cheap Thrills’ and More Offbeat Streaming Gems 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Who are your literary heroes?I've had many: Gogol, Beckett, Maupassant, Heinrich von Kleist, Kafka, Mark Twain, all the Roths I can think of but especially Joseph Roth, and of course Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z A master at understanding human nature, Dostoyevsky weaves a world set against 19th century St. Petersberg as the murder takes a toll on Raskolnikov’s conscience. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z People who read Russian like to say that Dostoyevsky isn’t actually a good prose writer, but I can’t possibly imagine that to be true. André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z In a sense, she’s a person who always has a psychological novel going on inside her head, and where would the psychological novel be without Dostoyevsky? This Week in Fiction: Elif Batuman on Writing Fiction vs. Nonfiction 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Dostoyevsky's anti-hero, impoverished student Raskolnikov, justifies his murder of a pawnbroker by considering his victim a parasite. What books do you think prisoners should read? 2012-06-26T13:48:08Z The great realist writers of the 19th century — Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Maupassant, Zola and Dostoyevsky — made the subject central to modern literature. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Religion and devotion feature prominently in this novel, but this tale has more in common tonally with Dumas than Dostoyevsky. A Swashbuckling Pirate Pulled Into One Last Job 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Among the books reviewed on Callum’s account are works by Jane Austen, George Orwell and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, as well as the Harry Potter and Game of Thrones series. Top authors take to Instagram to defend teenage book lover 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z And Dostoyevsky’s questions about persisting, and resisting, in the face of institutionalized inhumanity glow with an infectious fever. Bodies in Pain, Protest and Resistance 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Based on the Dostoyevsky novel, “The Demons” has recently played festivals in Vienna, Amsterdam and Naples. The Battle Behind the 12-Hour ?Demons? 2010-06-26T02:41:00Z And the sheer wealth of character and incident in Dostoyevsky’s doorstop novels also militates against natural engagement in the theater. | 'The Demons': Peter Stein Takes Dostoyevsky to Governors Island 2010-07-11T23:13:00Z Jesse Eisenberg in Dostoyevsky adaptation: It sounds crazy, but making "The Double" into a movie might actually be a good idea. Pop Torn: 10 pieces of cultural ambivalence 2011-08-06T12:01:00Z It is filled with movie references but, as suggested by Alexandre’s ex, feels as dense and psychologically resonant as a novel — maybe one by Dostoyevsky. ‘The Mother and the Whore’: A Threesome and Then Some 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z In the 19th century, Dostoyevsky wrote about the phenomenon of self-laceration, as both a physical and spiritual form of torment, a naturally unnatural response to the divisive absurdities of self and society. Bodies in Pain, Protest and Resistance 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z We can say wholeheartedly that whatever crime and punishment Bakhtin saw in Dostoyevsky's novels is ubiquitous in China, while at the same time the influence of mass media now wholly permeates people's lives. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z “The Sinner and the Saint” ends right after Dostoyevsky marries Anna Grigorievna Snitkina, the stenographer who helped him complete “Crime and Punishment” and therefore rescued him from immediate catastrophe. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z “You choose the paths that match your brain. I prefer Dostoyevsky because that’s the way I think.” Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Sinan himself often resembles a Dostoyevsky character — a man whose aspirations outstrip his prospects and whose romantic temperament threatens to curdle into corrosive cynicism. ‘The Wild Pear Tree’ Review: A Gambler and a Writer at Odds 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Le Tellier said he has long been fascinated by the idea of the double, a theme also taken up in literature by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Oscar Wilde and Jorge Luis Borges. The Novel That Riveted France During Lockdown Arrives in the U.S. 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Of course, the title is borrowed from Dostoyevsky. This Week in Fiction: Elif Batuman on Writing Fiction vs. Nonfiction 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z As Birmingham shows, Dostoyevsky wasn’t the schematic storyteller his critics make him out to be, mapping out some grand ideologies and then deducing the details. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Given “a choice between a demonic theocracy and an amoral nihilism,” Mr. Kuz writes, “Dostoyevsky favored the first, whereas, his Western admirers — like Woody Allen often decided to opt for the second.” ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: Understanding Dostoyevsky Courtesy of Woody Allen 2011-09-13T17:21:46Z There is nothing like her humor, or Shakespeare’s, or Dante’s, or Dickens’s or Dostoyevsky’s, in ancient tragedy or in our young Miltonic prigs who are writing intense novels just now. Review: ‘The Makioka Sisters,’ by Junichiro Tanizaki 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Italian critics were won over by the staging of this Dostoyevsky novel, which follows a group of would-be revolutionaries in 19th-century Russia and warns of the risk of fanatical ideologies. The Battle Behind the 12-Hour ?Demons? 2010-06-26T02:41:00Z And anyplace named after a Dostoyevsky character in West Texas you’ve really got to love. True Hollywood story: The producer and the Black Panther 2012-06-09T19:00:00Z The subtitle of Art Garfunkel’s new memoir, “ Notes From an Underground Man,” echoes Dostoyevsky’s “Notes From Underground” and Richard Wright’s story “The Man Who Lived Underground” — both serious works of literature. Art Garfunkel opens up, and what spills out is a fascinating mess 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z You know how it works: If mood elevators had been available to Dostoyevsky, would he have written “The Brothers Karamazov”? Might Ingmar Bergman have made only comedies? Review: ‘The Effect,’ About Falling in Love While Taking Antidepressants 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z The movie is long and dark: long like a novel by Dostoyevsky or Dreiser, dark like a painting by Rembrandt. ‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z This new orientation was reflected in “Myshkin,” a large-scale work based on Dostoyevsky’s novel “The Idiot,” commissioned by PBS and broadcast in 1973. John Eaton, Composer and Electronic Innovator, Dies at 80 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z He doesn’t quote Dostoyevsky, but I will: “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” ‘Solitary’ Is an Uncommonly Powerful Memoir About Four Decades in Confinement 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z In “Limonov,” Carrère once again reminds us of Dostoyevsky, his most constant cultural referent when in his Russian mode. Emmanuel Carrère’s Disconcertingly Personal and Utterly Gripping Prose 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “Justice and the Western Perception of Dostoyevsky: Woody Allen’s ‘Crimes and Misdemeanors’ and ‘Match Point’ ” by Michal Kuz, a graduate student in political science at Louisiana State University. ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: Understanding Dostoyevsky Courtesy of Woody Allen 2011-09-13T17:21:46Z He read everything from classics by Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, Cervantes, to novels like “Under the Volcano” by Malcolm Lowry, Doris Lessing’s “The Golden Notebook,” and works by Robert Stone. Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z She made one more film, playing an Russian dowager with a craving for roulette in a 1997 British production of Dostoyevsky’s “Gambler.” Luise Rainer, ’30s Star Who Won Back-to-Back Oscars, Dies at 104 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z She spent her childhood immersing herself in intellectual pursuits, like reading through the entire works of Dostoyevsky at age 13. Wanelo: A Social Media Shopping Site 2014-05-07T22:47:56Z Farmiga: You know, Norma is… The character has got Tolstoy’s ego and Dostoyevsky’s torment, and so it requires a lot of emotional endurance. Tough scenes, rocky starts: Six TV drama actors dish 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Crime and the punishment that—sometimes—ensues have been rich fictional subjects since long before Dostoyevsky’s novel was serialized in a Russian journal in 1866. Crime-and-Punishment Stories 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Bakhtin and Benjamin's assessments of literature are obviously tied to the context of their lives: when Bakhtin was studying Dostoyevsky's novels and emphasising the individual, he had just returned from exile imposed by Stalin. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z Mr. Mendelsund, who has designed striking covers for departed literary giants like Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Joyce, dreads working with picky writers who demand a particular font, color, image or visual theme. Peter Mendelsund, Book Designer, Debuts as a Writer 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Although it had been at least a week since I’d seen another human, the Chance brothers — and Duncan’s update of Dostoyevsky by way of baseball — kept me company. A bestselling Montana author's magnum opus nearly broke him. Then it saved his soul 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Yet another twist and turn in a story that's already surpassed Dostoyevsky for levels of surprise and mystery. Putin and Prigozhin: Getting to grips with latest twist in Wagner saga 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z The New York Times described it as a “wildly excessive, flamboyantly sentimental, tear-jerking, thigh-slapping homage to Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy — and the game of baseball.” Great baseball movies and books in honor of MLB All-Star Week 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z In Russia, novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky described the streets of St. Petersburg, the rundown quarters in which the poor were condemned to live, and the cheap saloons in which they sought relief. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z "Dostoyevsky and Tchaikovsky remain a part of European culture, whether we like it or not. It will continue to be our biggest neighbour. It will stay the second largest nuclear power in the world." Austrian minister says Russia will remain important for Europe 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z One American admirer, Henry Miller, likened him to Dostoyevsky in his “range of hope and despair.” Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Laureate and Critic of Postwar Japan, Dies at 88 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z I mean, how could I, with a straight face, eliminate traveling through Russia and then go scurrying down to my Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy? The 25 Travel Experiences You Must Have 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z She said that Ms. Griner had been reading a translation of Dostoyevsky’s novel “Demons,” a political tragedy considered one of the author’s most important works. Brittney Griner Is Increasingly Anxious About Being Freed, Lawyer Says 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Dostoyevsky once wrote: “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” Griner is being sent to a Russian penal colony. What is that? 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The rest of the day is filled with reading books — Ms. Griner has been reading Dostoyevsky in translation, for instance — and watching television, though all of the channels are in Russian, Ms. Kalugina said. Gray walls, books and a Lenin monument: A look inside the facility where Griner is detained. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z It says much the same about Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Goodbye, Pushkin. Ukrainians target Russian street names, monuments. 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z For the 75-year-old former president, it was a moment of self-incrimination worthy of Dostoyevsky — a display of conscience and a swerve into truth in a time when truth seems lost in the mist. Opinion | Johnny Depp and Other Pirates 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z In Damascus, before the war, he was a literature student who preferred Marlowe to Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky to all others. Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z As a native Russian speaker, he grew up listening to Soviet rock bands like Kino, reading Dostoyevsky in the original Russian and learning history from a predominantly Russian perspective. For Ukrainian Writer, War Evokes Scars of Time in Captivity 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z She said in an interview that the basketball star “has a positive attitude” and had received from her lawyers shampoo for her dreadlocks and some books, including Dostoyevsky’s “Demons.” Brittney Griner Doing Well in Prison, U.S. Says, but Is No Closer to Release 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s the nation, for God’s sake, that gave birth to Gogol and Tchaikovsky, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Turgenev and Baryshnikov and Stravinsky and Makarova. Perspective | They bombed a theater in Ukraine. Somewhere, Chekhov is weeping. 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z “It is difficult actually, when you always read Russian books and literature, Bulgakov, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky,” he said in an interview at his art nouveau studio. ‘We Need to Oppose Russia’: Ukrainians Find Common Purpose 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z He quoted Dostoyevsky: “Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!” ‘You Can’t Trust Anyone’: Russia’s Hidden Covid Toll Is an Open Secret 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z Ishiguro told me that he has always envied 19th-century writers like Dostoyevsky who were working at a time when age-old religious beliefs were being called into question by the rise of evolutionary theory. Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z My 22-year-old son, Jake, has outlasted the virus, the heat wave, the blackouts, the smoke and six months of lockdown by reading Dostoyevsky and Saroyan. Opinion | California, the Most Calamitous Place on Earth 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z She describes her son as an artist and a cook, and very smart, proudly noting he read Dostoyevsky in the eighth grade. 'He's been set up': the American whose life may depend on US-China relations 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z I'm thinking of Dostoyevsky's short novel, Notes from Underground. Poor have become part of landscape, warns Pope 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Episodes featuring the last items on this list are also clinically known as Dostoyevsky’s seizures, after the late 19th-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who suffered from severe temporal lobe epilepsy. What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about the Brain 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z “As Dostoyevsky wrote, “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently”. The role of medical students in the pandemic 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Dostoyevsky noted that “little interest and big interest” are the same. Letter of Recommendation: Gambling 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Mikhail Andreevich recognized his son’s changed needs and granted his request; he died soon afterward, under mysterious circumstances, and Dostoyevsky came to believe that he had been murdered by the serfs he had overworked. The Equality Conundrum 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z “The darker the night, the brighter the stars,” Dostoyevsky wrote. A World Without Pain 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Since 1991, Ukrainian politicians, despite claiming to be against corruption, have kept close ties to oligarchs while taking pleasure in their bureaucratic powers, enjoying what Dostoyevsky once called “administrative ecstasy.” How Trump’s Emissaries Put Pressure on Ukraine’s New President 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z I remember seeing Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment on my parent’s bedside table when I was a young child. What Do Machine Learning and Hunter-Gatherer Children Have in Common? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Raging heroes in Dostoyevsky, Jacobsen, and Hamsun enjoy denouncing a God they don’t believe in. A Neglected Modern Masterpiece and Its Perverse Hero 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z No one has taken more shots without scoring than De Jong, likened in El Mundo to the tortured protagonist of a Dostoyevsky novel. A new Sevilla but the same old story as Barcelona blow them away | Sid Lowe 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Wolfhard worked hard for the role, learning his Russian accent from YouTube videos, reading Russian literature – including Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot – and going through a great many fake cigarettes on set. The Goldfinch: would it have worked better as a TV show? 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Time and again, despite not having read Dostoyevsky, he has to be stopped from throwing himself away. “Toy Story 4” Plays It Again 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Later on, Dostoyevsky became one of my favorite authors. What Do Machine Learning and Hunter-Gatherer Children Have in Common? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z He credits certain thinkers who get the Athens-Jerusalem balance right and help further Western greatness, among them, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Edmund Burke and, implicitly, himself. Review | A conservative prescription for modern social ills 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Hemingway had it right when he identified Algren’s proper ancestor as Dostoyevsky. Nelson Algren’s Street Cred 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z As a result, some of my father’s books are my books now: my Dickens and Dostoyevsky, my biology and natural history, my literary fiction and light verse and tragedy. My Father’s Stack of Books 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z When some of the burly guys on the train briefly extolled Dostoyevsky and Chekhov, I wasn’t surprised. Review | ‘Metro Exodus’ values atmosphere and exploration as much as action 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Holden was keener to discuss his favorite class this semester, “Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the Great Philosophical Novel.” For Gay Conservatives, the Trump Era is the Best and Worst of Times 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Dostoyevsky might not be a bad place to start. Review | A conservative prescription for modern social ills 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z In the last years of his life, the work that Ernest Hemingway once said “beat Dostoyevsky” was so undervalued that much of it was out of print. Nelson Algren’s Street Cred 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Also oddly, while Rand mocked dark moods and despair, her “reasoning” directed that Collective members should admire Dostoyevsky, whose novels are filled with dark moods and despair. How Ayn Rand contributed to America’s greed 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z I want to ask him where he stands on Dostoyevsky, but he points at the door. The Initiation of a Young Irishman, by Frank McCourt 1999-02-15T05:00:00Z The host responded by pointing out that he learned to pronounce Dostoyevsky and Tchaikovsky because both were famous. No ‘Foreign’ Names for Children, Dear Abby Advised. Furious Parents Replied. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The Humm-Wadsworth Temperament Scale, a popular personality indicator from 1935 that sorted people into five different types, drew on the novels of Dostoyevsky and Flaubert. Perspective | Five myths about personality tests 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z That’s what Dostoyevsky and Camus struggled to show to us in art: that the logic of murder was almost always an illogic. The Las Vegas Massacre Report and the Rise of Second Amendment Nihilism 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z When I was young I was obsessed with Dostoyevsky. Chloe’s New Creative Director Is Just Like You 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z I remember an editor emailing me in 2009 to ask if there was any truth to the story that Mr. Putin preferred Dostoyevsky to Tolstoy. Opinion | Russia Was My Obscure Interest. Now Everyone Is Paying Attention. 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z “You know, you all have no problem saying Dostoyevsky and Tchaikovsky,” he recalled saying. No ‘Foreign’ Names for Children, Dear Abby Advised. Furious Parents Replied. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z That consecration has spread from academia to, say, Reddit, where fans gather around movies, TV dramas, video games and comic books the way the academy threw its weight behind Dostoyevsky, Joyce, Faulkner and Updike. Who Gets to Decide What Belongs in the ‘Canon’? 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Mr Dodin’s work is deeply Russian in its roots and themes, yet resonates around the world as Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov and indeed Grossman do. A great Russian director brings history to life on stage 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z She said she had learned from Dostoyevsky “that human beings are unreliable creatures, so laws and rules are needed to ensure that this does not repeat itself.” In Nobel Scandal, a Man Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct. A Woman Takes the Fall. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z In Russia, 19th-century hermit Startsy Ambrose’s fame drew illustrious visitors like Dostoyevsky, who consulted the hermit several times following the death of his son; their encounters were immortalised in The Brothers Karamazov. This reclusive life: what I learned about solitude from my time with hermits 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z His face, which has a boyish enthusiasm when he’s excited, turns profoundly focused when he considers the business aspect of things; in unguarded moments he sometimes looks as beatific as a Dostoyevsky character. A Former Superagent Bets Big on a More Diverse Hollywood 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z But there is a seriousness at the book’s heart for, beyond opening with a quote from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Gambler, it uncovers Findlay’s consuming defeats and depression. Professional punter Harry Findlay: ‘I didn’t have the train fare to see my mum’ | Donald McRae 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z In the programme he prefaced the play with a quote from Dostoyevsky: “God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.” A great Russian director brings history to life on stage 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z A few of the empire’s most famous undesirables spent part of their exile here: Fyodor Dostoyevsky after he ticked offNicholas I, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn after he ticked off Stalin. Can a Giant Science Fair Transform Kazakhstan’s Economy? 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z “Life is,” as Dostoyevsky wrote, and it is our job to figure out what the “is” is. Opinion | Maybe Colin Kaepernick Is Just Not That Good 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z So I set a goal for myself, through all seven years of undergrad and grad school, of reading 50 literature books a year — Kafka, Balzac, Dostoyevsky, all the classics. Mark Nathan on Bringing Your Teflon to Get Honest Feedback 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z I don’t know what she means about Dostoyevsky, but her general statement should sound familiar in our day of loose gender definitions. Angela Carter’s Feminist Mythology 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z On four occasions, he was—like the young Dostoyevsky, in 1849—subject to mock executions, taken out to be shot only to be “reprieved” at the last moment. A Neglected South American Masterpiece 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z He retreated into reading Dostoyevsky and punching heavy bags. The Trials of a Boxing Romantic 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z A magistrate — a figure akin to Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor — tells Rodrigues that Christianity cannot take root in the “swamp” that is Japan. The Passion of Martin Scorsese 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z The author Tom Wolfe, a friend, described Mr. Timoney as an intellectual who organized a book club while in Philadelphia that tackled works by James Joyce and Dostoyevsky. John Timoney, Longtime Police Leader, Is Recalled at His Funeral as ‘One of a Kind’ 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Twenty feet up, where no one ever seemed to look, was a small historical plaque identifying it as the temporary home of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky. David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z He pointed at Fyodor Dostoyevsky writing "The Idiot" in Renzi's native Florence as a reflection of close cultural ties between Russia and Italy. Renzi says Italy wants to boost economic ties with Russia 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z He pointed at Fyodor Dostoyevsky writing “The Idiot” in Renzi’s native Florence as a reflection of close cultural ties between Russia and Italy. Renzi says Italy wants to boost economic ties with Russia 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s hard to think of a work of fiction so exclusively internal until Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot,” and harder still to think of a romance. The Prude Who Invented the Modern Novel 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z It’s fascinating to think of running a scan on Dostoyevsky to see what was actually going on in his brain. The Troubled Minds of the Rich and Famous Unlike Michelangelo, Dostoyevsky was missing from the official lore of the city — you couldn’t buy postcards bearing his image or visit a museum devoted to his life and work. David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z She is known to walk the hallways of hotels for exercise and at night listens to podcasts or short stories by Dostoyevsky because she doesn’t sleep well. Shari Redstone Prepares for Battle to Control a Media Empire 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z He took established works by Dostoyevsky and Shelley - but also, explains Alasdair MacLeod from the RGS, "newly published fiction by popular authors of the time". What books were taken to the Antarctic 100 years ago? - BBC News 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Chambers’s tale is one of suffering and high drama out of Dostoyevsky. Why Leftists Go Right 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z The most traditional in appearance is the Dostoyevsky with a split wooden plinth, others are deliberately futuristic - such as the flagship Kubrick model, inspired by the space station in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Good vibrations: From designing ships to making turntables - BBC News 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The real power of Dostoyevsky’s work, though, is that despite all the misery his characters endure, his vision is not actually miserable. David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Dostoyevsky wrote in The Grand Inquisitor about ruling with magic, mystery and the sword. Xi Jinping: Does China truly love 'Big Daddy Xi' – or fear him? 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z There is a tradition within literature of ecstatic seizure caused by epilepsy, particularly in the work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who was an epileptic himself. How Neuroscience Is Helping Answer the Question ‘Who Am I?’ 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z The film is peppered with references to various greatest hits of the liberal arts canon, Kant and Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky and De Beauvoir, elevating the cloistered, hermetic atmosphere. Joaquin Phoenix aces role in Woody Allen's 'Irrational Man' 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Also, he said: “I was reading Dostoyevsky at the time. And Dostoyevsky was a dynamic writer; he did not pull his punches. That influenced the style of the email.” Dalton School Ordered to Rehire Teacher Who Criticized Bosses in Email 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z In Dostoyevsky, there is a radical acceptance that strikes me as, in its own way, a new, more perfect vision of perfection: an envelope of understanding that can hold the entire universe. David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z “They say Dostoyevsky lost his faith looking at that painting,” he told me. The Man Making Sculpture Modern 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Reading Dostoyevsky I would be pressing the key that triggered the message “37F,” in response to the common question “What bra size are you?” Dirty Talk and Dostoyevsky on the Night Shift 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Kristoffersen cited a line that is usually attributed to Dostoyevsky: “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” The Radical Humaneness of Norway’s Halden Prison 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z She sits there stoically, like a fallen character out of Dostoyevsky. ‘Out of My Mouth Comes Unimpeachable Manly Truth’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z I began to think of the David not as a traditional hero but as a Dostoyevsky character. David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Because by 10th grade, it was Vonnegut and Dostoyevsky I was obsessed with. The Author of If I Stay on Why Kids Crave Young Adult Books With Dark Themes 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Which, of course, brings us back to Dostoyevsky. The Unrelenting Pursuer in Horror Film 'It Follows' “People don’t want to be in prison of course but some people benefit from it. Dostoyevsky. Solzhenitsyn. I’m on of those people.” Activist Defiant After Sentencing Over Stratfor Hacking 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z She credits a passage in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov for teaching her how to love her daughter. Weekendish: The best of the week's reads 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z “The Idiot” was Dostoyevsky’s attempt to create an ideal man, a modern Christ — what he called “a completely beautiful human being.” David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z “And when I say culture, I don’t mean Dostoyevsky,” he said. Nils Usakovs, Mayor of Riga, Aims to Move Beyond Ethnic Politics 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z When Fyodor Dostoyevsky described in his novels how ideas have the power to change human lives, he knew something of what he was writing about. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z In an 11th-grade Russian class, framed portraits of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the poet Mikhail Lermontov stared down at rows of empty desks. Nowhere to Run in Eastern Ukraine 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z At 383 pages, it attempted to tie together the philosophies of Immanuel Kant, Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee, while roping in ideas from Descartes, Dostoyevsky, Hegel, Hume, Socrates and Spinoza. Walter Isaacson Reviews Henry Kissinger's New Book 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Up in his cramped apartment above the paper store, Dostoyevsky flogged his unruly book. David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z If Dostoyevsky is right, then the U.S. is a nation of racist barbarians. “A nation of cowards”: What Eric Holder needs to say today 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z In 1859 a new tsar allowed Dostoyevsky to end his Siberian exile. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z In what would now, perhaps, read like protesting too much, Erica Jong mitigated the hurried, chatty style and pop subject matter with references to Blake, Byron, Dostoyevsky and other pillars of her graduate degree. Fear of Flying was the first time I encountered adult life and wasn’t bored 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Dostoyevsky told us that "being with children soothes the soul." The Kid Connection: The Key to Better Health and Aging 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z This put me in mind, once again, of Dostoyevsky — the grumpy outcast seething in Florence, the anti-David. David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Clinton listed her favorite book as Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” and said she already had a first children’s book picked out to read to her future grandchild: Margaret Wise Brown’s “Goodbye Moon.” Clinton: US, Europe should get tough on Russia 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z As a result of this revelation, Dostoyevsky became increasingly mistrustful of the progressive ideology to which he had been drawn as a young man. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Clinton listed her favorite book as Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" and said she already had a first children's book picked out to read to her future grandchild: Margaret Wise Brown's "Goodbye Moon." Clinton: US, Europe should get tough on Russia 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Despite facing fewer concerns about the survival of its language, France focuses heavily on French literature, whereas Italian schools readily teach Miguel de Cervantes and Fyodor Dostoyevsky alongside Dante Alighieri and Primo Levi. What Should Teenagers Read at School? To succeed in its essential planetary search for peace, humankind would benefit from a genuine reading of Freud, Jung, Nietzsche, Hesse, Emerson and Dostoyevsky. Ukraine, Syria and the Struggle Between Warring Crowds 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Rowan Williams said that Dostoyevsky is about what people owe one another, which seems like a good response. Richard Ayoade Talks The Double, Directing and Dostoyevsky: Q&A 2014-05-09T14:00:21Z Dostoyevsky's indictment of nihilism is presented in his great novel Demons. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z “If so, it would explain at least one similarity between him and the writers to whom he is sometimes compared in his major fiction: Melville, Conrad and Dostoyevsky.” Peter Matthiessen, Author and Naturalist, Is Dead at 86 2014-04-06T01:54:35Z Massive photos of the country’s best writers — Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky — were greeted with wild applause. Sports of The Times: Olympic Closing Ceremony Proves Russia a Worthy Host 2014-02-24T01:31:29Z Huge banners depicting some of Russia’s greatest authors — Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, the dissident writer Solzhenitsyn — were displayed as people ran around waving books in the air. With Olympics’ Closing Ceremony, a Chance to Exhale 2014-02-23T21:58:32Z Dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn will be remembered alongside Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, while painters including Kazimir Malevich and March Chagall will inspire the backdrop to the final chapter of the Games. Closing ceremony paints hosts Russia in softer colors 2014-02-23T16:37:45Z Dostoyevsky suggests that the result of abandoning morality for the sake of an idea of freedom will be a type of tyranny more extreme than any in the past. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z I don’t even think Dostoyevsky could make that work. Amanda Knox, what really happened: Writing toward the actual story 2014-02-09T12:00:00Z Literary critics in the U.K. have compared his writing to masters like Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Franz Kafka and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Iraqi Writer Finds Literary Asylum in English Translation 2014-02-03T20:00:48Z On May 6 of the same year, men in black masks and camouflage gear evacuated all the houses on Dostoyevsky Street, where Karnayeva lived. Inside The Minds Of Russia's Black Widows 2013-08-26T08:45:00Z Along with Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, the lawyer brought along a volume of short stories by Anton Chekhov. Snowden's Still at Moscow Airport 2013-07-25T11:05:23Z What Dostoyevsky diagnosed was the tendency to think of ideas as being somehow more real than actual human beings” Dostoyevsky's novel contains a lesson that reaches far beyond Russia. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Collaborate on your writing project with the great masters; Dickens to Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare, Poe and more, with this of Docs real time editing environment. VIDEO: Webscape: Citizen science projects 2013-07-19T07:32:41Z Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment on tape A classic Russian novel, with a recent edition weighing in at 446 pages. Edward Snowden's hand luggage 2013-06-26T23:06:14Z Karnaeva happened to live on Dostoyevsky Street, a tribute to the author of Crime and Punishment. Dagestan: No country for young men 2013-06-23T23:36:11Z “A guy named Dostoyevsky wrote a pretty good story about that, didn’t he?” said his defense lawyer, Philip J. Smallman, who suggested the charges were overly harsh because the defendant was considered to be looting. Crime Scene: Chasing a Post-Storm Boogeyman Through Neighborhoods Gone Dark 2012-11-10T01:31:50Z But the earlier title may have been closer to Dostoyevsky's intentions. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Note that they constantly smile, like in Dostoyevsky’s Demons. Pussy Riot Witch Hunt by Kremlin-Backed ‘Youth Movement’ 2012-09-30T13:39:00Z Now I teach Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky and play football with my students in the morning. At War Blog: Changes in Kabul Classrooms 2012-01-27T17:57:55Z Most players in the league have tattoos, but to my knowledge none have Schopenhauer and Dostoyevsky quotes on their backs and arms. Straight Sets: Could the N.B.A. Invade the U.S. Open? 2011-08-28T13:06:34Z For that matter, what would conventional secular humanist liberals have to say to an intelligent, thoughtful, scientifically literate, secular authoritarian -- say, the late German jurist Carl Schmitt or Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor? Secular humanists on the real planet of the apes 2011-08-23T11:01:00Z The 19th Century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote about characters who justified murder in the name of their ideological beliefs. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Of the many great artists of St. Petersburg, Fyodor Dostoyevsky arguably captured it best. Letter from Europe: Splendor and Stasis in St. Petersburg 2011-04-22T10:50:04Z We were far more interested in Russian literature — Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Chekhov and Tolstoy — and European literature — Balzac, Hugo, Maupassant and Dickens — than in Arab literature. Op-Ed Contributor: Finally, Turkey Looks East 2011-02-23T05:48:02Z There, studying the literature of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, he found religion. East New York Journal: Newcomers From Russia Are Reviving a Church 2010-12-25T01:38:28Z As befits the home of Pushkin and Dostoyevsky, there are thus two parallel narratives. Letter from Russia: Two Parallel Narratives of Russian Modernization 2010-06-21T11:20:00Z Reprieved, the prisoners were put in shackles and sent into Siberian exile - in Dostoyevsky's case for four years of hard labour, followed by compulsory service in the Russian army. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Downey, a bona fide star after years of reckless living, lends a lot of his autobiography to Tony's addiction to fame; he could be a self-destructive hero out of a Dostoyevsky or Mailer novel. Hero Worship: Iron Man 2's Troubled Heart 2010-05-07T09:00:00Z “In a nod to Dostoyevsky, I do want to call it ‘Notes From the Underground,’ but we won’t be doing that,” Mr. Sharenow said. And, Cut! Money Woes Delay a TV Reality Show on Subway Workers 2010-03-02T02:42:00Z Dostoyevsky’s first book, Poor Folk, published in 1846, is a descendant of Gogol’s story The Cloak, and bears the influence, to a slight extent, of Gogol. An Outline of Russian Literature The most important of all are: "The Causes of the Decadence of Modern Russian Literature" and "Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky." Contemporary Russian Novelists Nor do you need to approve of Dostoyevsky's political outlook, which was a mystical version of nationalism deeply stained with xenophobia. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z These men, Balakireff, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakoff and Moussorgsky, have done for the free expression of the Russian temperament in music what Pushkin, Gogol and Dostoyevsky represent in literature. Music: An Art and a Language Dostoyevsky's fellow-convicts showed great fondness for a horse, an eagle, and a number of geese. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso This book, Dostoyevsky’s Macbeth, is so well known in the French and English translations that it hardly needs any comment. An Outline of Russian Literature Dostoyevsky is the painter of the depths of the human soul, which he portrays with almost supernatural acuteness. Contemporary Russian Novelists Like the deluded revolutionaries of Dostoyevsky's novel, we've turned abstract notions into idols and sacrificed others and ourselves in the attempt to serve them. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Dostoyevsky, who knew the Russian soul so well, pointed out repeatedly that defencelessness arouses in it a sensuous inclination to cruelty and crime. The Shield Dostoyevsky, a writer most sensitive to the claims of nationality in Russia, defined the ideal of the Russians in a celebrated speech as the embodiment of a universally humanitarian type. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 The book anticipated the future, and in it Dostoyevsky created characters who were identically the same, and committed identically the same crimes, as men who actually lived many years later in 1871, and later still. An Outline of Russian Literature It would be useless to try to connect him with Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, or Gorky. Contemporary Russian Novelists The plot is a version of actual events that unfolded as Dostoyevsky was writing the book. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Tolstoy and Gorky may be counted among the forerunners of Bolshevism, but Dostoyevsky, whom I was privileged to know, was one of its keenest antagonists. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Perhaps as approaching my concept I may cite Dostoyevsky. Là-bas Without fear of controversy or contradiction one can now say that Dostoyevsky’s place in Russian literature is at the top, equal and in the opinion of some superior to that of Tolstoy in greatness. An Outline of Russian Literature The story of Dostoyevsky's terrible existence is probably known. Contemporary Russian Novelists But as Dostoyevsky foresaw, the use of inhuman methods to achieve a new kind of freedom produced a type of repression that was much more far-reaching than the theatrical cruelties of tsarism. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z It is not horror for horror's sake, not a literary tour de force, as in Poe, but horror for a high purpose, for purification through suffering, which was one of the articles of Dostoyevsky's faith. Best Russian Short Stories If to sensitive readers the story seems so real as to be hideous, it is well to recall that Dostoyevsky in 1849 under-went the agony of sentence to death as a revolutionist. The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann Here we have the whole secret of Dostoyevsky’s greatness. An Outline of Russian Literature It is hard to think of two people more absolutely different than Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Contemporary Russian Novelists What Dostoyevsky diagnosed - and at times suffered from himself - was the tendency to think of ideas as being somehow more real than actual human beings. The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z And Dostoyevsky's novel, Poor People, which appeared ten years later, is, in a way, merely an extension of Gogol's shorter tale. Best Russian Short Stories Dostoyevsky, sentenced as a criminal, herded with criminals, really became a criminal in literary imagination. The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann To say that Dostoyevsky is the antithesis to Tolstoy, and the second great pillar of Russian prose literature, will surprise nobody now. An Outline of Russian Literature Most of Andreyev's characters, like those of Dostoyevsky, are abnormal, madmen and neurasthenics in whom are distinguishable marked traces of degeneration and psychic perversion. Contemporary Russian Novelists It was then that Tolstoy, Turgenieff, and Dostoyevsky embarked upon their phenomenal careers in fiction. Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? In Dostoyevsky, indeed, the passion for the common people and the all-embracing, all-penetrating pity for suffering humanity reach their climax. Best Russian Short Stories You don't have to read them in full; you don't need to spend weeks poring over Dostoyevsky or studying Shakespeare. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 Dostoyevsky was an epileptic, the painter of the abnormal, of criminals, madmen, degenerates, mystics. An Outline of Russian Literature And, as Tolstoy is "the seer of the flesh," so is Dostoyevsky "the seer of the soul." Contemporary Russian Novelists Dostoyevsky was seized, condemned to death, and when already on the scaffold, with the rope around his neck, reprieved and sent for life to the Siberian mines. Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? It verges on caricature, but is curiously and inseparably blended with a sympathy for even the lowest and vilest specimens of Mankind which is reminiscent of Dostoyevsky. Tales of the Wilderness Mohammed, Lord Byron, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, to name a few cases, are famous instances. The Glands Regulating Personality And it is just this all-embracing humanity—Dostoyevsky calls him πανάνθρωπος —this capacity for understanding everything and everybody, which makes him so profoundly Russian. An Outline of Russian Literature Without being a great scholar, it is easy to perceive that our contemporary Russian authors are legitimate sons of Turgenev, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, and grandsons of Gogol, who himself is closely related to Pushkin. Contemporary Russian Novelists The Inspector-General and later Gogol's novel, Dead Souls, established that tradition in Russian letters which was followed by all the great writers from Dostoyevsky down to Gorky. The Inspector-General It is a great novel, probably the most perfect Russian novel since the death of Dostoyevsky. Tales of the Wilderness One can hear Dostoyevsky's prophetic line: "If it's otherwise not possible, make us your servants, but make us full." The Civilization of Illiteracy Dostoyevsky was likewise subjected to the same ostracism. An Outline of Russian Literature Dostoyevsky, on the other hand, triumphs in his dialogue; one sees his characters because one shares all their sadness, their passions, their intelligence, and their sensibility. Contemporary Russian Novelists No less important is the factor for rebellious awakening in modern literature—Turgeniev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Andreiev, Gorki, Whitman, Emerson, and scores of others embodying the spirit of universal ferment and the longing for social change. Anarchism and Other Essays If the eventual English reader approaches Pilniak with these standards, he will be disappointed; Pilniak is not a second Dostoyevsky, and he has singularly few "ideas." Tales of the Wilderness Raskolnikov, in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, criticized the "legal style" of those educated as lawyers. The Civilization of Illiteracy Submission and humility and resignation are the keynotes and mainsprings of Dostoyevsky. An Outline of Russian Literature Having established this difference in principle, Merezhkovsky, by constant deduction, concludes, in consonance with his favorite idea, that Tolstoy personifies "the pagan spirit" at its height, while Dostoyevsky represents "the Christian spirit." Contemporary Russian Novelists Intellectual Germany had to take refuge in the literature of other countries, in the works of Ibsen, Zola, Daudet, Maupassant, and especially in the great works of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgeniev. Anarchism and Other Essays It is in many ways a descendant of Dostoyevsky—and has in its turn again produced a numerous family of imitations, including Pilniak's most characteristic tales of the Revolution. Tales of the Wilderness If to sensitive readers the story seems so real as to be hideous, it is well to recall that Dostoyevsky in 1849 underwent the agony of sentence to death as a revolutionist. The Lock and Key Library The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: North Europe — Russian — Swedish — Danish — Hungarian Dostoyevsky was catholic and cosmopolitan, and admired the literature of foreign countries—Racine as well as Shakespeare, Corneille as well as Schiller. An Outline of Russian Literature Dostoyevsky's life is the exact opposite of Tolstoy's. Contemporary Russian Novelists From 1873-80 Dostoyevsky went back to journalism, and wrote his Diary of a Writer, in which he commented on current events. An Outline of Russian Literature And that is the gist of Dostoyevsky’s message to mankind. An Outline of Russian Literature Dostoyevsky with his definite religious opinions was the most broad-minded man who ever lived. An Outline of Russian Literature With the death of Turgenev and Dostoyevsky, the great epoch of Russian literature came to an end. An Outline of Russian Literature And the walls of the cellar heard the reading of the works of Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Karamzine, and others. Contemporary Russian Novelists Dostoyevsky seems to get nearer to the unknown, to what lies beyond the flesh, than any other writer. An Outline of Russian Literature Tolstoy dreamed of giving up all he had to the poor, and of living like a peasant; Dostoyevsky had to share the hard labour of the lowest class of criminals. An Outline of Russian Literature Tolstoy theorized on the distribution of food; but Dostoyevsky was fed like a beggar. An Outline of Russian Literature Twenty-one of them were condemned to death, among whom was Dostoyevsky, who, being on the army list, was accused of treason. An Outline of Russian Literature The passage in "Crime and Punishment," in which Dostoyevsky depicts one of his heroes in the following manner: "He was young, he had abstract ideas, and was, consequently, cruel," perfectly fits Tanya. Contemporary Russian Novelists We know nothing of Dostoyevsky from his books. An Outline of Russian Literature Tolstoy wrote in affluence and at leisure, and re-wrote his books; Dostoyevsky worked like a literary hack for his daily bread, ever pressed for time and ever in crying need of money. An Outline of Russian Literature But Dostoyevsky died before this part of the subject is even approached. An Outline of Russian Literature Turgenev suffered from it; but the genius of Dostoyevsky and the art of Turgenev overstepped the limits of all barriers and frontiers. An Outline of Russian Literature Dostoyevsky, who shared some of the illusions of the Slavophiles, speaks of Europe as "a land of sacred miracles." Contemporary Russian Novelists There are pages where Dostoyevsky expresses the anguish of the soul in the same manner as Wagner expressed the delirium of dying Tristram. An Outline of Russian Literature Dostoyevsky was not an artist; his work is shapeless; his books are like quarries where granite and dross, gold and ore are mingled. An Outline of Russian Literature I 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 See how even now it treats the most interesting, exceptional, and mighty of all Russians, Dostoyevsky, merely because he does not fit into the Radical mould! An Outline of Russian Literature We can then readily understand how Dostoyevsky, in his "Memoirs of an Author," had the right to say that the European socialistic-democrats had two countries, first their own, then Russia. Contemporary Russian Novelists |
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