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Dostoevsky or Do·sto·yev·sky, Do·sto·ev·ski, Do·sto·yev·ski, Do·stoi·ev·ski [dos-tuh-yef-skee, duhs-; Russian duh-stuh-yef-skyee] Examples noun
- Fyo·dor Mi·khai·lo·vich [fyoh-der mi-kahy-luh-vich; Russian fyaw-duh r myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˈfyoʊ dər mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ; Russian ˈfyɔ dər myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/, 1821–81, Russian novelist.
Examples from the Web for dostoevsky Contemporary Examples of dostoevsky
An ex-convict looks back on the books he read, from Dostoevsky to Malcolm X, during the decade he spent behind bars.
Reading Prison Novels In Prison
Daniel Genis
May 24, 2014
Dostoevsky spends a lot of description on the little hustles his ‘peers’ worked at for money and services.
Reading Prison Novels In Prison
Daniel Genis
May 24, 2014
Some were as old as Dostoevsky, who wrote his House of the Dead in 1861 after four years in a Siberian prison camp.
Reading Prison Novels In Prison
Daniel Genis
May 24, 2014
If Dostoevsky unintentionally laid the philosophical groundwork upon which Putin now stands, then Tolstoy offers the solution.
How Tolstoy Can Save Putin’s Soul
Andrew D. Kaufman
May 10, 2014
If Putin preferred Tolstoy over Dostoevsky, what a happier, more peaceful place Ukraine would be right now.
How Tolstoy Can Save Putin’s Soul
Andrew D. Kaufman
May 10, 2014
Historical Examples of dostoevsky
And it is here that Gorki seems to us almost to surpass Dostoevsky.
Hans Ostwald
And here Gorki is a true creator, even if as artist he ranks below Dostoevsky.
Hans Ostwald
Take the case of Dostoevsky—his epilepsy was one of the most fruitful of motives in his stories.
James Huneker
But hard work calmed his nerves, as was the case with Dostoevsky.
James Huneker
It is easy to see why Dostoevsky has become a popular author.
Robert Lynd
British Dictionary definitions for dostoevsky Dostoevsky Dostoyevsky, Dostoevski or Dostoyevski noun
- 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)