Dostoevsky

I note that on twitter someone was mounting the case that Dostoevsky is better than Tolstoy.

Matthew Yglesias » Why Choose? 2010

And whilst I accept the Dostoevsky is probably not as popular as Austen, which would explain not including all of his work, I still struggled to comprehend why you would include the less well known books like The Gambler, but omit to include his most famous work, The Brothers Karamazov.

I held the future in my hand! « Write Anything 2010

Dostoevsky is the only one of the bunch still in the front row for the 21st.

Matthew Yglesias » Why Choose? 2010

Dostoevsky is also an illustration of the power of great writing to convey radically unsound or even totally nonsensical ideas.

Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

Does anybody out there in LJ land know if the quote Sartre attributes to Dostoevsky is accurate?

Something else I had forgotten about running-- matociquala 2008

But on the other hand, I do feel like Dostoevsky is fundamentally interested in mystical and moral life, about the gap between our flawed and sinful selves and the redeemed soul that (in Dostoevsky’s view, through Christ) we can become.

Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

And to complicate things, I’ve just posted a new one which, like the Fante or the Murdoch or the Dostoevsky, is close to my cuffs.

The Winter Journey (Le Voyage D’Hiver) | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2005

To paraphrase Dostoevsky, try to read the above and not think of Blogging Tory "Neo Conservative."

How the heroes have fallen. CC 2008

To paraphrase Dostoevsky, try to read the above and not think of Blogging Tory "Neo Conservative."

Archive 2008-11-01 LuLu 2008

Vladimir Nabokov went with Tolstoy, labeling him “the greatest Russian writer of prose fiction” and calling Dostoevsky “not a great writer, but rather a mediocre one.”

Jim Windolf: A Q&A with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky Translator Richard Pevear: Jim Windolf Windolf, Jim 2008