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Dostoevski

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Dos·to·yev·sky or Dos·to·ev·ski  (dst-yfsk, -toi-, ds-), Feodor Mikhailovich 1821-1881.
Russian writer whose works combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight. His four great novels are Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868-1869), The Possessed (1871), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880).
Dosto·yevski·an adj.
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In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevski states that "the earth is soaked from its crust to its very centre with the tears of humanity".
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``I had a kind of passionate crush on various Dostoevski characters and on the man (Dostoevski) himself.
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Needless to say, in his slapdash treatment of the man who can perhaps claim to be the greatest novelist of the human race, Wilson rises to the bait and abuses Dostoevski in just those terms.
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