| As a passionate admirer of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky he had in any case long nourished an admiration for Russia. |
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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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| Dostoevsky suffered seizures all his life and his writing records the intensity of epilepsy. |
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| There are virtually no references to the vast critical literature on Dostoevsky. |
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| The next three chapters examine the religious existentialism of Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche. |
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| Some were as old as Dostoevsky, who wrote his House of the Dead in 1861 after four years in a siberian prison camp. |
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| Dostoevsky appears not to have had a clear idea of how to proceed. |
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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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| 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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| We all know about Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Dostoevsky, but what about their compatriot, Nikolai Leskov? |
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| If Putin preferred Tolstoy over Dostoevsky, what a happier, more peaceful place Ukraine would be right now. |
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| If Dostoevsky unintentionally laid the philosophical groundwork upon which Putin now stands, then Tolstoy offers the solution. |
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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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| While working on Russian translations of Shakespeare's works, Boris Pasternak compared Macbeth to Raskolnikov, the protagonist of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. |
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