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Dostoevski's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity -- all this is difficult to admire.
Canonical Writers 2008
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It is, as in all Dostoevski's novels, a rush and tumble of words with endless repetitions, mutterings aside, a verbal overflow which shocks the reader after, say, Lermontov's transparent and beautifully poised prose.
Canonical Writers 2008
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For Salon's Andrew O'Hehir, Paranoid Park is a visually lovely, semi-experimental riff on Dostoevski's Crime and Punishment that has almost no point of contact with actual human existence ....
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Dostoevski's classic depiction is fictional, but no less convincing and no less disturbing:
Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000
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Dissertation on Dostoevski's influence on English-language novelists.
Flux Tales of Human Futures Card, Orson Scott 1990
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Dostoevski's Brothers Karamazov, freely admits that systematic injustice and clever manipulation, masked if need be by sophistry and ceremony, offer the only means to maintaining a modicum of social order.
SENSE OF THE COMIC EDWARD G. BALLARD 1968
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{FN13-2} One is reminded here of Dostoevski's observation: “A man who bows down to nothing can never bear the burden of himself.”
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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{FN13-2} One is reminded here of Dostoevski's observation: "A man who bows down to nothing can never bear the burden of himself."
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922
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"A House of Gentlefolk," the girl in Dostoevski's "Poor Folk;" Dunia and Sonia, in "Crime and Punishment" -- many others might be called to mind.
Essays on Russian Novelists William Lyon Phelps 1904
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Dostoevski's "House of the Dead" is marked by that naive Russian simplicity that goes not to the reader's head but to his heart.
Essays on Russian Novelists William Lyon Phelps 1904
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