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I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.
Michel Houellebecq

Meaning of "Dostoevsky" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DOSTOEVSKY

Dostoevsky  [ˌdɒstɔɪˈɛfskɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DOSTOEVSKY

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Dostoevsky is a noun.
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WHAT DOES DOSTOEVSKY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский, IPA: ( listen); 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. He began writing in his 20s, and his first novel, Poor Folk, was published in 1846 when he was 25. His major works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His output consists of eleven novels, three novellas, seventeen short novels and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature. Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoyevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends, and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died in 1837, when he was 15, and around the same time he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute.

Definition of Dostoevsky in the English dictionary

The definition of Dostoevsky in the dictionary is Fyodor Mikhailovich. 1821–81, Russian novelist, the psychological perception of whose works has greatly influenced the subsequent development of the novel. His best-known works are Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DOSTOEVSKY


Brodsky
ˈbrɒdskɪ
Chomsky
ˈtʃɒmskɪ
dusky
ˈdʌskɪ
frisky
ˈfrɪskɪ
husky
ˈhʌskɪ
Laski
ˈlæskɪ
Malinowski
ˌmælɪˈnɒfskɪ
Minkowski
mɪŋˈkɒfskɪ
Nevski
ˈnɛfskɪ
Ossietzky
ˌɒsɪˈɛtskɪ
Ostrovsky
ɒsˈtrɒfskɪ
pesky
ˈpɛskɪ
Polanski
pəˈlænskɪ
risky
ˈrɪskɪ
Sikorsky
sɪˈkɔːskɪ
Stokowski
stəˈkɒfskɪ
Tchaikovsky
tʃaɪˈkɒfskɪ
Trotsky
ˈtrɒtskɪ
whiskey
ˈwɪskɪ
whisky
ˈwɪskɪ

WORDS THAT END LIKE DOSTOEVSKY

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Synonyms and antonyms of Dostoevsky in the English dictionary of synonyms

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陀思妥耶夫斯基
1,325 millions of speakers

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Dostoievski
570 millions of speakers

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Dostoevsky
510 millions of speakers

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Dostoevsky
380 millions of speakers
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دوستويفسكي
280 millions of speakers

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Достоевский
278 millions of speakers

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Dostoiévski
270 millions of speakers

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Dostoevsky
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Dostoïevski
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Dostoevsky
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Dostojewski
180 millions of speakers

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ドストエフスキー
130 millions of speakers

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도스토예프스키
85 millions of speakers

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Dostoyevsky
85 millions of speakers
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Dostoevsky
80 millions of speakers

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தாஸ்தோவ்ஸ்கி
75 millions of speakers

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डोस्तोकेस्की
75 millions of speakers

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Dostoyevski
70 millions of speakers

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Dostoevskij
65 millions of speakers

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Dostojewski
50 millions of speakers

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Достоєвський
40 millions of speakers

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Dostoievski
30 millions of speakers
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Ντοστογιέφσκι
15 millions of speakers
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Dostojewski
14 millions of speakers
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Dostoevsky
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Dostojevskij
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Dostoevsky

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2 QUOTES WITH «DOSTOEVSKY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Dostoevsky.
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Jeffrey Bell
One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.
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Michel Houellebecq
I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOSTOEVSKY»

Discover the use of Dostoevsky in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Dostoevsky and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work.
Joseph Frank, 2009
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Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859
This present volume is the second in a series dealing with the life and works of Dostoevsky [...] during the ten years [he] spent first in solitary confinement, then in a prison camp in Siberia, and finally as a soldier in one of the ...
Joseph Frank, 1990
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Dostoevsky: His Life and Work
Dostoevsky's writings are criticized individually and in relation to one another against the background of his life and thought.
Konstantin Mochulsky, 1971
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Dostoevsky: The Author as Psychoanalyst
Analyzes Dostoyevsky's major works, describes what they reveal about his life, and looks at his beliefs and obsessions
Louis Breger, 1990
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Reading Dostoevsky
In this critical introduction to Dostoevsky's fiction, Victor Terras asks readers to draw their own conclusions about the 19th-century Russian writer.
Victor Terras, 1998
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Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky is known as the author of some of the most important Russian novels of the 19th Century, such as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.
Richard Freeborn, 2003
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Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism: A Study of Dostoevsky in ...
Through detailed analyses of the work of Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol, Fanger identifies romantic realism, the transformative fusion of two generic categories, as a powerful imaginary response to the great modern city.
Donald Fanger, 1998
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Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition
This collection explores the interaction between Dostoevsky's Christian faith and his writing. The essays cover such topics as temptation, Dostoevsky's use of the gospels, icons and hagiography.
George Pattison, Diane Oenning Thompson, 2001
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Dostoevsky the Thinker
For all his distance from philosophy, Dostoevsky was one of the most philosophical of writers. Drawing on his novels, essays, letters and notebooks, this volume examines Dostoevsky's philosophical thought.
James Patrick Scanlan, 2002
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Dostoevsky and Kant: Dialogues on Ethics
"In this book, Evgenia Cherkasova brings the philosopher Kant and the novelist Dostoevsky together in conversations that probe why duty is central to our moral life.
Evgenia Cherkasova, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOSTOEVSKY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Dostoevsky is used in the context of the following news items.
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Emma Watson and Kiernan Shipka star in: 50 actors who should …
Both actors suggest years of buried history through cadence and gesture; obscure passages from Dostoevsky are interpolated throughout. «A.V. Club DC, Jul 15»
2
Crime & Punishment: Putting brewery back in Brewerytown
all friends of onetime homebrewer Michael Wambolt, who during breaks from his job as a commercial painter was reading the Dostoevsky ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
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Revisiting Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's warnings to the West
Following writers such as Fyodor Dostoevsky and N.M. Karamzin, the Russian conservative tends to interpret modern history as a struggle ... «Catholic World Report, Jul 15»
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The staff of The Spectator are straight out of a painting by Norman …
The only Swedes I've read are Hemingway, Tolstoy, Fitzgerald, Greene, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Zola and Waugh. I'm buggered either way. «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Exclusive Video Premiere: Ivan & Alyosha, 'Oh This Love' (Cabin …
Named after characters from Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov, the band began as a duo consisting of Tim Wilson and Ryan ... «Diffuser.fm, Jul 15»
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The Rise Of Story
And I didn't have a lot of skills beyond being one of the few people I knew who actually liked reading Dickens, Dostoevsky and Garcia Marquez. «MediaPost Communications, Jul 15»
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THE BLISFULLY ATYPICAL FOLK ROCK OF DREW WORTHLEY
My new record CRUCIBLE draws variously on childhood memory, Dostoevsky, faith, doubt, architecture, existentialism and even the economic ... «Baeble Music, Jul 15»
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Collecting Rare Books and First Editions - On m'accuse?
Vizetelly published Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Gogol, the Goncourt brothers, Tolstoy and, famously, Zola. 'During the period from 1884 to 1889 Vizetelly published ... «ILAB, Jul 15»
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Grab a book, laze in the shade
The works of Leo Tostoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky certainly provide hours worth of reading to ease the boredom of a long winter inside. But when ... «Pamplin Media Group, Jul 15»
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White nights, summer romance
This results in something the Russians call “White Nights” which was the title of an early short story by Dostoevsky. #I don't know how that ... «San Diego Reader, Jul 15»

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