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Dostoevski

Dostoevski \Dostoevski\, Dostoyevski \Dostoyevski\prop. n. Russian author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski; born 1821, died 1881.

Syn: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski.

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Stavrogin was Dostoevski and Dostoevski was the sum of all those contradictions which either paralyze a man or lead him to the heights.

What Twain had left alive, Dostoevski had withered and Pasternak had killed.

What Twain had left alive, Dostoevski had withered and Pasternak had killed.

These were the driving forces too in the work of the third great originator, the novelist Dostoevski, from whose writings, especially The Brothers Karamazov and Notes from Underground, springs virtually the whole flowering of Existentialist sensibility in literature.