Dostoevskian

Published in 1940 just before restrictions on Jewish authors came into effect, Les Chiens et les loups (The Dogs and the Wolves) has as its heroine Ada Stiller, a Jewish girl who grows up in the Ukraine but moves to Paris, where she lives from hand to mouth painting scenes of the world she has left behind, scenes too "Dostoevskian" in tone for French tastes.

Irène Némirovsky: The Dogs & the Wolves Coetzee, J.M. 2008

Through their bracing and often witty interplay -- the American has the checkbook and the weapons, plus a pop culture that enthralls and blinds; the humiliated, acerbic Brit "facilitates"; the Russian waxes Dostoevskian -- we can understand why historically Afghanistan has proved "the graveyard of empires."

Carla Seaquist: Why Can't Art Be Instructive? Carla Seaquist 2012

Through their bracing and often witty interplay -- the American has the checkbook and the weapons, plus a pop culture that enthralls and blinds; the humiliated, acerbic Brit "facilitates"; the Russian waxes Dostoevskian -- we can understand why historically Afghanistan has proved "the graveyard of empires."

Carla Seaquist: Why Can't Art Be Instructive? Carla Seaquist 2012

Through their bracing and often witty interplay -- the American has the checkbook and the weapons, plus a pop culture that enthralls and blinds; the humiliated, acerbic Brit "facilitates"; the Russian waxes Dostoevskian -- we can understand why historically Afghanistan has proved "the graveyard of empires."

Carla Seaquist: Why Can't Art Be Instructive? Carla Seaquist 2012

Despite the bleakness of the terrain, he doesn't forsake the bizarre Dostoevskian comedy of the chance encounter, or his instinct for being in the wrong place at the wrong time: as I made my way back from the steel factory through a series of puddles, I needed to take a piss.

The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India by Siddhartha Deb – review 2011

Through their bracing and often witty interplay -- the American has the checkbook and the weapons, plus a pop culture that enthralls and blinds; the humiliated, acerbic Brit "facilitates"; the Russian waxes Dostoevskian -- we can understand why historically Afghanistan has proved "the graveyard of empires."

Carla Seaquist: Why Can't Art Be Instructive? Carla Seaquist 2012

Through their bracing and often witty interplay -- the American has the checkbook and the weapons, plus a pop culture that enthralls and blinds; the humiliated, acerbic Brit "facilitates"; the Russian waxes Dostoevskian -- we can understand why historically Afghanistan has proved "the graveyard of empires."

Carla Seaquist: Why Can't Art Be Instructive? Carla Seaquist 2012

Through their bracing and often witty interplay -- the American has the checkbook and the weapons, plus a pop culture that enthralls and blinds; the humiliated, acerbic Brit "facilitates"; the Russian waxes Dostoevskian -- we can understand why historically Afghanistan has proved "the graveyard of empires."

Carla Seaquist: Why Can't Art Be Instructive? Carla Seaquist 2012

"I have the image of a Dostoevskian actor, but I'm mad about Jerry Lewis," he once remarked.

Laurent Terzieff obituary 2010

Dirda on Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham: While I've known for a long time that William Lindsay Gresham's 'Nightmare Alley' 1946 was an established classic of noir fiction, I was utterly unprepared for its raw, Dostoevskian power.

Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers Omnivoracious 2010