Word: dostoievskian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hecht has heretofore meant novels like Erik Dorn, Count Bruga, A Jew in Love-gaudy, swashbuckling, ranting books, splashed with dead-pan vehemence, a sort of Ouija-board mysticism, a little sour cream of human kindness-all with a suggestion of having been written by a slightly phoney, Dostoievskian pixy...
Wheel of Fortune is a surprising book. It sets out like a society farce, develops into the psychological realism of a Stendhal novel, ends like a Dostoievskian drama. And the whole thing leaves an impression as unmistakably Italian as a plaster wall painted to look like marble. A tour de force of remarkable virtuosity, this story of a woman's disintegration will linger in readers' minds as a clever analysis but not a revelation...
...would not always be content to turn out facile potboilers for the commercial fiction magazines. Even highbrow critics admitted that The Great Gatsby had been a promising foreshadow of better books to come. Rumor spread that Author Fitzgerald was leading a double literary life, that he was writing a Dostoievskian novel in which a son kills his mother. Readers last week were relieved to discover that Tender Is the Night is built to no such outlandish specifications, but closed the book with still unsettled feelings about the author. F. Scott Fitzgerald, who started well this side of paradise...
...dark: many were left alive, even after the butchery of the War, the massacres, of the Revolution. They found ways to live and ways to be happy. None of these people is the black-&-white type that propaganda likes: all are individual, characteristic, human. Some of them are Dostoievskian, unforgettable: Zavalishin, crafty workman turned executioner, who shoots down hundreds but cannot stick a pig; Grigory, stout old peasant to whom it never occurs to be unfaithful; Edward Lvovitch, who puts his heartbreak into music but cannot pronounce...
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