Dostoevsky

How To Use Dostoevsky In A Sentence

• The Underground Notes is one of the most controversial and abstract works of Dostoevsky.
• 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.
• Rasputin dined here, Dostoevsky wrote in a corner hotel room, Tchaikovsky supped with his bride on their honeymoon.
• Almost all of Dostoevsky's heroes are extremely introspective and verbal creatures.
• 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.
• '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
• In Dostoevsky's day there were no effective drugs to prevent seizures - perhaps he took bromides.
• As a passionate admirer of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky he had in any case long nourished an admiration for Russia.
• Dostoevsky's creation is one of the most complex phenomena in the literature history of the world.
• As Dostoevsky once remarked, Russians cannot bear their own freedom; they seek someone before whom to bend their knee.