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n. - Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881).

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  • Dostoevsky is the only one of the bunch still in the front row for the 21st.
  • I note that on twitter someone was mounting the case that Dostoevsky is better than Tolstoy.
  • Does anybody out there in LJ land know if the quote Sartre attributes to Dostoevsky is accurate?
  • Dostoevsky is also an illustration of the power of great writing to convey radically unsound or even totally nonsensical ideas.
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