Quotes About Dostoevski

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him.

Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's Nose.

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. I do not like this trick his characters have of sinning their way to Jesus or, as a Russian author Ivan Bunin put it more bluntly, spilling Jesus all over the place.

The repetition of words and phrases, the intonation of obsession, the hundred percent banality of every word, the vulgar soapbox eloquence mark these elements of Dostoevski's style.