How To Use Dostoevsky In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Dostoevsky evinced the conviction of having been divinely commissioned in a manner that was diffident, almost shy, and utterly devoid of braggadocio.
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There are virtually no references to the vast critical literature on Dostoevsky.
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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
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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
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The hero of Dostoevsky's novel - Rodion Raskolnikov - is not a regicide in deed but in word.
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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
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He is a resolute 'classicist' in many ways, expressing his unease about Rilke to Maria von Wedemeyer when she shares her enthusiasm; Rilke is 'unhealthy', a diagnostician of the darker, more flawed and ambiguous regions of the spirit (yet he admired at least some of Dostoevsky).
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Archbishop's Speech to the International Bonhoeffer Congress, Poland
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The pre-interval section of the play has Dostoevsky as a revolutionary, and then as a drunkard and gambler.
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Despite the eighteenth - century efforts of Peter the Great to introduce westernizing corruptions, Dostoevsky believed in the fundamental religious and social integrity of Holy Russia.
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For Lukacs, Dostoevsky was strictly speaking uninterpretable, an incomprehensible dead end within the modern world or a harbinger of something new that only ‘later artists will one day weave into a great unity’.
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The plot of Dostoevsky's novel paralleled real-life events.
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Dostoevsky once wrote: “If God did not exist, everything would be permitted”; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point.
Something else I had forgotten about running--
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Don Quixote is the first modern novel, perhaps the most eternal novel ever written and certainly the fountainhead of European and American fiction; here you have Gogol and Dostoevsky, Dickens and Nabokov, Borges and Bellow, Sterne and Diderot in their genetic nakedness, once more taking to the road with the gentleman and the squire, believing the world is what we read and discovering that the world reads us.
Richard C. Morais: Our Knight In Shining Armor
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In the round of 16, there were still three Dostoevskys, two Tolstoys and two Solzhenitsyns along with some lesser lights (think of them as the mid-majors) like Babel, Goncharov, Lermontov, Bulgakov and Sholokhov.
Better Than an Eight Ball
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This is a classic instance of Dostoevsky's writing operating on two levels.
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They may of course manifest themselves in a practically infinite number of permutations, and the precritical reader may relish such psychological fiction as that of Dostoevsky or Flaubert for the subtlety and acuteness with which those authors portray the presumably universal and static varieties of affective experience.
PKD and Style
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Dostoevsky smooths the transition from the usual narrative past tense to the present tense used here by preceding this passage with lengthy narrative digression in which the narrator refers to his own present situation (writing).
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It took writers such as Dostoevsky or Nietzsche, ‘great obliterator [s] of modern false values,’ to stimulate her.
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The harsh and cruel elements of Russian society, especially the drive to dominate and control, fill the imagery of Dostoevsky's novels.
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Although the narrators of Dostoevsky's later novels are by no means ‘objective,’ they create the illusion of a world existing beyond the fantasy of any single character.
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This is a classic instance of Dostoevsky's writing operating on two levels.
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I was an editor of the school newspaper, acting in the spring play, obsessing about which girls I liked, talking Marx and Dostoevsky with my classmates.
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Rasputin dined here, Dostoevsky wrote in a corner hotel room, Tchaikovsky supped with his bride on their honeymoon.
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Almost all of Dostoevsky's heroes are extremely introspective and verbal creatures.
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The story of his life, at least as he tells it, reads as if Kafka had been crossed with Dostoevsky with a dollop of magical realism thrown in for good measure.
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'Constance Garnett translated 73 volumes of Russian literature, which included Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Herzen and many others, but translating Chekhov gave her more pleasure than any other work'
Constance Garnett by Edna O'Brien
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In Dostoevsky's day there were no effective drugs to prevent seizures - perhaps he took bromides.
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As a passionate admirer of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky he had in any case long nourished an admiration for Russia.
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Dostoevsky's creation is one of the most complex phenomena in the literature history of the world.
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As Dostoevsky once remarked, Russians cannot bear their own freedom; they seek someone before whom to bend their knee.
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The next three chapters examine the religious existentialism of Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche.
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Dostoevsky appears not to have had a clear idea of how to proceed.
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The Underground Notes is one of the most controversial and abstract works of Dostoevsky.
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Of course it reflects Dostoevsky's animus toward Catholicism, but it depicts the temptation to which religion, and all forms of Christian religion, not just Catholicism, are susceptible.
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Dostoevsky suffered seizures all his life and his writing records the intensity of epilepsy.
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Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov is writing about that familiar figure of the old Russia, the starets, or holy man: 'A starets takes your soul, your will, into his soul and will.
The Black Sheep of Pokrovskoe
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Even if all the anachronisms, like the electric table lamp and fan in the study of Dostoevsky or cigar lighters or costumes of characters were overlooked, there still remained hitches.
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Dostoevsky's novel is founded on unreason: Dimitri Karamazov submits to being tried for the murder of his father even when he knows himself to be innocent.
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Often described as a modern writer, Dostoevsky is - like all geniuses - timeless.
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Garnett translated 73 volumes of Russian literature, which included Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Herzen and many others, but translating Chekhov gave her more pleasure than any other work.
Constance Garnett by Edna O'Brien
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The driving motif around which Dostoevsky's life and work cohere is not the conflict between ‘reason and irrational faith.’
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In 1874, Dostoevsky began work on his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov, his literary masterpiece of parricide that reflected and prophesized the death of the Tsar and in turn, traditional Russian society.
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This is a classic instance of Dostoevsky's writing operating on two levels.
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So it produces an odd sensation to learn, again from Anna, that this superstition was in fact Dostoevsky's.
