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Name: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Birth Date: 1821
Death Date: January 28, 1881
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, author

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Biography of Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
15,396 words, approx. 51 pages
Among European writers of the nineteenth century Fyodor Dostoevsky is the preeminent novelist of modernity. He explored the far-ranging moral, religious, psychological, social, political, and artistic ramifications of the breakdown of traditional...
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Biography of Fedor Dostoevsky
6,333 words, approx. 21 pages
Russian writer Fedor Dostoevsky represents many things to many people. There is Dostoevsky the existentialist, Dostoevsky the psychologist, Dostoevsky the arch conservative who foretold the repression and tyranny of the Soviet state, Dostoevsky the...
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Biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky
2,156 words, approx. 7 pages
The Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) mixed social, Gothic, and sentimental elements with psychological irrationalism and visionary religion. The form of the novel vastly increased in scope and flexibility as a result of his works. Fyodor...


Quotations
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский (born in Moscow on 1821-11-11 ( 1821-10-30 O.S. ); died in St. Petersburg on 1881-02-09 ( 1881-01-28 O.S.)) was a Russian writer. See also: Crime and Punishment...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor Summary
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DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR (1821–1881), Russian novelist. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's childhood was spent in the constrained atmosphere of a Muscovite charity hospital, where his father served as a doctor. It was the murder of his father...
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Mikhaylovich)
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(born Nov. 11, 1821, Moscow, Russia—died Feb. 9, 1881, St. Petersburg) Russian novelist. Dostoyevsky gave up an engineering career early in order to write. In 1849 he was arrested for belonging to a radical discussion group; sentenced to be shot,...
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821–1881) Summary
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich(1821 1976. Scanlan, James P. Dostoevsky the Thinker. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Information
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский, pronounced [ˈfʲodər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ dəstɐˈjɛfskʲɪj], sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, Dostoievsky, or Dostoevski...


News and Journals
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Commonweal
Dostoevsky lives. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
11/04/1994: 1,286 words, approx. 4 pages
The tea in Dostoevsky's glass is still brewed daily, as if it had to sustain him through a strenuous night of writing. Even the doorbell is unchanged since the time Dostoevsky would slowly climb the steep stairs to his second-floor apartment in Saint...
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Clinical Medicine
On the good use of epilepsy by Fyodor Dostoevsky
06/01/2008: 1,348 words, approx. 5 pages
This column explores the links and synergies between medicine and literature. What roles can literature play in reflecting and influencing good practice, and what sorts of images of doctoring are to be found in drama, poetry, fiction, biography, electronic fora and film? The editors...
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Writer Shriver hopes to up U.S. profile
4/29/2007: 910 words, approx. 3 pages
There are many parallels between Lionel Shriver and the main character in her new novel, "The Post-Birthday World." Both Shriver and Irina McGovern are Americans living in London, both enjoy a predinner bowl of popcorn, and both must choose between two men, the central premise...
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AP-Travel Online
Russia's "Second City" Is Second to None
7/3/2006: 1,271 words, approx. 4 pages
Glorious on one block, dismal on the next _ St. Petersburg is a chalice holding the extremes of Russia's history. For an outsider trying to grasp Russia's sweep and complexities in a short...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Ronald D. LeBlanc
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In the following essay, LeBlanc explores Dostoevsky's use of food and eating in his fiction, and suggests that the author uses such imagery as a metaphor for humans' efforts to dominate, or “devour” each other.
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Turgenev and Dostoyevsky
3,023 words, approx. 10 pages
An analysis of the relationship between Russian novelists Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the role of nihilism in their work.


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