Dostoevsky

How To Use Dostoevsky In A Sentence

• He cast her in L' Amour Braque, a version of Dostoevsky's The Idiot, in which she played a teenage prostitute, and persuaded her to do her first nude scene.
• Being at once an extreme skeptic and an extreme believer generated in Dostoevsky a chronically antinomic state of mind which he surreptitiously relished, I believe, even as he tried to conceal it from his readers and especially from his patrons, including the renowned Pobedonstsev who belonged to aristocratic and official circles. A Special Supplement: The Other Dostoevsky
• Moreover, Bakhtin argues that in Dostoevsky's polyphonic novels the author is only an unprivileged voice taking part in his own internal dialogue, where his conflicting ideas are incarnated by various characters.
• Moreover, Bakhtin argues that in Dostoevsky's polyphonic novels the author is only an unprivileged voice taking part in his own internal dialogue, where his conflicting ideas are incarnated by various characters.
• Dostoevsky evinced the conviction of having been divinely commissioned in a manner that was diffident, almost shy, and utterly devoid of braggadocio.
• There are virtually no references to the vast critical literature on Dostoevsky.
• In his footnote to The Philosophy of Modern Music, which Rosen comments upon, Adorno establishes a relationship — problematic, it has to be admitted — between the supposed "premodern" and "precapitalistic" character of Russian society and some "traits" of a presumed "pre" - subjectivism ‚ in the work of Mussorgsky and Dostoevsky (Adorno admired both). Adoring Adorno
• Hardly anyone can pull a life-sized Dostoevsky out of an opera hat. The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman – review
• The hero of Dostoevsky's novel - Rodion Raskolnikov - is not a regicide in deed but in word.
• Dostoevsky insists that the institution of the starets in imperial Russia came from the East, 'the practice of a thousand years.' The Black Sheep of Pokrovskoe