1. Dostoevsky - Noun
2. Dostoevsky - Proper noun
Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881)
Source: WordNetWhen he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow? George Steiner
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss. Albert Einstein
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky. Flannery O’Connor
I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker. Vincent Kartheiser
Russia [...] will awaken in the spirit of its greatest thinker, in the spirit of Dostoevsky. Joseph Goebbels
Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave. Georg Brandes