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...“I’d always been interested in doubles and the doppelganger in Gothic literature, and then, moving on a bit, Dostoevsky wrote a short story called The Double, Borges wrote about the double . . . ” Levy says...
...Kashimada is an established writer of avant-garde fiction in Japan; she has reworked Dostoevsky’s The Idiot as The Kingdom of Zero (2009) and is a member of the Orthodox Church, contexts which turn out to...
...This metaphysical stand-off reads like some febrile out-take from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. For Rushdie, the fiction helps him overcome the urge to confront his attacker in the flesh....
...The Brooklyn-based artist is best known for her colourful cubist-inspired paintings, which draw from writers including Beckett and Dostoevsky, and attempt to find meaning in the “ordinary” and “banal”....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is The Gambler by Dostoevsky. I’m very into Russian novels and can read and reread them. Otherwise I’m about to start Britney Spears’s memoir....
...She deftly weaves in cultural representations of the double — from Dostoevsky and Graham Greene to Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock and Jordan Peele’s film Us — to frame her thinking....
...experience just in case it inspires anyone else. 5am: Rise like Jamie, drink a glass of filtered water and retreat to my study in the east wing (the room above the garage) to speed read the complete works of Dostoevsky...
...The writer is an associate professor in the faculty of law at Cambridge university and vice-master of Selwyn college Dostoevsky’s eponymous Gambler knew the experience of addiction — “how a man can sit...
...The allure, and challenge, of The Family Chao is in balancing its debt to Dostoevsky with saying something fresh about family and immigrant life....
...Andrea Riseborough in a riot of houndstooth and leopardskin respectively, these militant philistines recoil at the cerebral prodigy they’ve spawned, who is happiest when immersed in a volume of Steinbeck or Dostoevsky...
...Its members claim to have experienced a Damascene awakening: they are reading Dostoevsky, they are talking to their parents, they are learning to observe....
...Art galleries around the world must take down their Kandinskys and the London mayor should also organise a public book burning of Dostoevsky’s works in Trafalgar Square. Sound familiar?...
...Unable to recall the events of the night before, Cassie turned detective, uncovering a plot involving missing money, a copy of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and a lethal British assassin....
...Dostoevsky came across Lacenaire while searching for material about criminals....
...It’s getting denser than Dostoevsky and less fun.” Some finance people will love this sexed-up take on their reality, others will nitpick. The writers are alive to their own shortcuts....
...Dostoevsky’s novel ends with the Speech at the Stone, a eulogy for a boy who pays for the sins of his father with his life....
...The Warner Bros cover letter, which Yockey has framed and mounted on his office wall, asked for something that married Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment with Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag....
...In January this year, Zen gave her Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov to read....
...Christofi doesn’t attempt a definitive biography but instead immerses the reader in Dostoevsky’s tumultuous life to gripping effect. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...For much of his life (he died, aged 59, in 1881), Dostoevsky felt and witnessed the febrile terror, despair — and intermittent ecstasy — he expressed in fiction driven by the belief that “On our earth we...
...The young Guzmán was fond of Fyodor Dostoevsky and the contemporary poets, Pablo Neruda and César Vallejo. He was also fired up by Fidel Castro’s success in Cuba....
...So the first novel that features Selin is called The Idiot (laughter), named after Dostoevsky’s novel of the same name. Um, this one is named after Kierkegaard’s book, Either/Or....
...It all comes back when I am rereading Dostoevsky’s first novel Poor Folk, where the protagonist writes: “How clearly I remember my youth! In those days I never had a kopeck to spare....
...I also love Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. The style moment that changed everything was when The Beatles met tailor Tommy Nutter in the ’60s....
...His face almost as rumpled as his shirt, he holds forth one minute — “I could have been another Schopenhauer, a Dostoevsky” — and gets stuck in a cupboard the next....
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