Dostoevsky

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Fyodor Mikhailovich 1821–81, Russian novelist.

Dostoevsky

/ dəstaˈjɛfskij, ˌdɒstɔɪˈɛfskɪ /

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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)

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He likes to paraphrase a Fyodor Dostoevsky quote, “The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons.”

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In “Crime and Punishment,” Dostoevsky wrote that everyone needs a somewhere.

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“The Idiot” is a nearly five-hour slog by a Polish-Russian contemporary of Shostakovich about another Dostoevsky outsider who succumbs to visions of grandeur.

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It’s a treasure trove of literary titans from Franz Kafka to Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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“A lot of it was inside jokes for ourselves,” said Studebaker, who paraphrased a wry quote from “The Gambler” by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “You gamble with your friends because you like to see them humiliated.”

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