Dostoevsky
noun
Fyodor Mikhailovich 1821–81, Russian novelist.
Dostoyevsky,
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a variation of
Dostoevsky.
Example Sentences
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He was enamored with the Russian giants, writing in 1953 that “those fertilized by both Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, who understand them both equally well,” have “an always formidable nature, with themselves and with others.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
He co-wrote and played the title role in a Dostoyevsky trilogy for the Bristol New Vic company in 1980-81.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
Variously compared to Irish writer Samuel Beckett and Russia's Fyodor Dostoyevsky, late American critic Susan Sontag called Krasznahorkai "the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville".
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
Speakers summoned the grand ideas of figures like the Pope, Homer, Dostoyevsky, Leo Strauss, Tocqueville and Gramsci.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
“What do you think of Dostoyevsky, Bobby?” someone queried.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
