Fyodor Dostoevsky
Book Review 'The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them,' by Elif Batuman
...of) how Batuman ended up spending seven years pursuing a Ph. D. in comparative literature, reading Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Goncharov, Babel and Chekhov; falling in and out of love with a...
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Letters: Dostoyevsky Suggests
Cathleen Schine's essay "I Was a Teenage Illiterate" (Feb. 28) reminds me of a letter that Dostoyevsky wrote at the end of his life to a father concerned over his daughter's reading (Aug....
Dostoevski claimed that his own attacks were similar to those of Muhammad: "Probably it was of such an instant, that the epileptic Mahomet was speaking when he said that he had visited all the dwelling places of Allah within a shorter time than it took for his pitcher full of water to empty itself." In an essay that discusses views of Muhammad's psychology, Franz Bul (1903) is said to have observed that "hysterical natures find unusual difficulty and often complete inability to distinguish the false from the true", and to have thought this to be the "the safest way to interpret the strange inconsistencies in the life of the Prophet."
Criticism of Muhammad Wikipedia | 1 month ago
Influential Books
...my love of pastiche. If you like "Miley Cyrus and American Exceptionalism" you have Kingston to thank. - 6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground: The very beginning from "I am...
On Dostoevsky -- By: Shannen Coffin
Enter Your E-Mail Address to Sign Up Since Rich has mentioned Dostoevsky on the Corner, I will now do my normal part in bringing the level of discourse to a new low. I give you . . ....
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The really long play's the thing Alexis Soloski
...of his nine-hour play Mahabharata, in Paris in 1987. Photograph: Julio Donoso/Corbis/Sygma In 1870, Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote to a friend with news of his new novel. "I have high hopes...
Portrait of 'Gardner Heist'
...Possessed'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a quirky collection of essays that fittingly cribs its title from a Dostoevsky novel. Batuman, whose graduate work at Stanford University led...
Lincoln Center Festival's 12-hour Play, THE DEMONS, Sells Out in Less than 12 Hours
...Desk The New York Times is reporting the Lincoln Center Festival's upcoming 12-hour production of Dostoevsky's novel, THE DEMONS, sold out all 700 tickets to its two performances in...
Library of Congress to Offer Junior Fellows Summer Internships
...created for Peter the Great, a 19th-century Buddhist monastic code of discipline, a first edition of Dostoyevsky's "The Possessed" and George Gershwin's song-book were among the...
Rep boils Dostoevsky epic down to 3 people, 90 minutes
...of St. Louis has only three actors. And it races by in about 90 minutes. It's quite a transformation for Fyodor Dostoevsky's towering novel, a book that, Carden observes, has...
Dostoyevsky set for Lincoln Center Festival 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - A 12-hour adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel will be among the highlights of Lincoln Center Festival 2010, running for 45 performances this summer. Festival director Nigel...
Salinger's Last Rights: To Publish From Grave?
...his 45 years of silence. "Salinger is an important writer, not a great genius -- not like Nabokov or Dostoyevsky," said three-time Pulitzer winning novelist Joyce Carol Oates, who has...
Dostoevskian delight
When Varvara Dobroselova leaves behind her beloved Makar Devushkin in the slums of 19th-century St. Petersburg in Fyodor Dostoevsky's first novel "Poor Folk" for the sake of a new...
