An ex-convict looks back on the books he read, from Dostoevsky to Malcolm X, during the decade he spent behind bars.
Reading Prison Novels In Prison|Daniel Genis|May 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Dostoevsky spends a lot of description on the little hustles his ‘peers’ worked at for money and services.
Reading Prison Novels In Prison|Daniel Genis|May 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Some were as old as Dostoevsky, who wrote his House of the Dead in 1861 after four years in a Siberian prison camp.
Reading Prison Novels In Prison|Daniel Genis|May 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If Dostoevsky unintentionally laid the philosophical groundwork upon which Putin now stands, then Tolstoy offers the solution.
How Tolstoy Can Save Putin’s Soul|Andrew D. Kaufman|May 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If Putin preferred Tolstoy over Dostoevsky, what a happier, more peaceful place Ukraine would be right now.
How Tolstoy Can Save Putin’s Soul|Andrew D. Kaufman|May 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But the secret of Dostoevsky's appeal is something more than the multitude and thrill of his incidents and characters.
Old and New Masters|Robert Lynd
It might seem so, at least, if the fiction of Dostoevsky were not there with an example exactly opposed to the manner of Tolstoy.
The Craft of Fiction|Percy Lubbock
And here Gorki is a true creator, even if as artist he ranks below Dostoevsky.
Maxim Gorki|Hans Ostwald
He was not Swedish with the passionate, reverential love with which Dostoevsky was Russian.
August Strindberg, the Spirit of Revolt|L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby
It seems impossible with many people to praise Dostoevsky without saying that he is greater than Tolstoy or Turgenev.
The Art of Letters|Robert Lynd
British Dictionary definitions for Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky
Dostoyevsky, DostoevskiorDostoyevski
/ (ˌdɒstɔɪˈɛfskɪ, Russiandəstaˈjɛfskij) /
noun
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)