Dostoevsky
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- proper noun
- /ˌdɒstəˈjɛfskɪ/
- We fed it Hemingway and Dostoevsky, and it produced short declarative sentences about deep philosophical questions.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Dostoevsky's The Idiot
- Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
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Watch on YouTubeOr like Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, take to literature.
- Or like Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, take to literature.
- And, he says, if we use this yardstick, Dostoevsky is no match for Agatha Christie.
- I wonder which point does the Russian education system give you Dostoevsky because it's pretty heavy stuff.
- I read my way through Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, I Chekhov.
- I have artists, writers, Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- Don't forget that Dostoevsky wrote or Tolstoy wrote their novels when Char was reading and censoring.
- Because Dostoevsky actually made this point, you know, long, long ago, where he basically said that what people want is not truth.
- Otherwise we wouldn't have Dostoevsky and Nabokov and, you know, being lasting so long.
- Well, Dostoevsky is always just the warm up.
- And Dostoevsky describe how tormented he was when he wanted to describe a Christ like the mishkin in The Possessed.
Examples
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Thoreau published Walden in 1854 and Dostoevsky published Notes from the Dead House in 1861.
Academic text (2003) -
Or one could read the works of great writers such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Balzac, Goethe, Steinbeck, or Murasaki.
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Because Dostoevsky actually made this point, you know, long, long ago, where he basically said that what people want is not truth.
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Perhaps, thought B, it really was a Dostoevsky story he had been thinking of.
Fiction book (1994) -
In the novel, Dostoevsky asks whether or not Raskolnikov is a Napoleon, an extraordinary man.
Academic text (1992) -
Terrorism became the leading preoccupation of politicians, police chiefs, journalists, and writers from Dostoevsky to Henry James.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky said the only thing he truly dreaded was that his life wouldn't be worthy of his suffering.
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Allen's movie touches on some of the themes familiar to readers of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
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Prince Myshkin is the protagonist of Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot”.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's novels often delve into the complexities of morality and human psychology.
Synonyms
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A Russian writer from the 1800s who wrote novels about people's suffering and thoughts
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A Russian writer of novels who wrote about human suffering and deep feelings
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A Russian novelist who wrote about human suffering and people's minds
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A Russian novelist who writes about human suffering and people's inner lives
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A Russian writer known for novels about how people think and suffer
A Russian writer of novels about human suffering, people's minds, and right and wrong
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dostoevsky is a Russian family name made from a place name, Dostoevo, plus the ending -sky, which means 'from' or 'of a place' in Russian names. So Dostoevsky literally means 'from Dostoevo', a simple clue that this is a Russian surname and helps you remember the famous novelist who wrote about Russian life and people.