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...pioneers who staked out the new boundaries of modern literature were Novelists Feodor Dostoevsky and Franz Kafka. Dostoevsky made a pre-Freudian exploration of the grand canyon that separates a man's public acts from his private thoughts-the split in the human atom. But in Dostoevsky's day the social frame within which his split men operated was still all of a piece, held together by principles of law & order and morality. By the time Kafka came on the scene, early in the 20th century, the frame itself was split. The rules and principles of Dostoevsky...
...Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky (June 30, 1912): "Chronic hysteria pervades the whole lot [of characters] from the point of view of the Western person...
...Feodor Chaliapin, the great basso, was a friend of a different stamp-one who devoured life with all the resources of his huge frame. As this was an expensive business, Chaliapin greatly resented being asked to give his services gratis. "Only little birds sing for nothing," he loved to say. But nothing pleased him more than to phone his friend, Pianist Rachmaninoff, and invite him to an all-night session of duets. One night when Chaliapin was in his cups, he fixed Bunin with a beady eye, and saying, "I think, Vanusha, that you are very tight indeed," humped...
White Tie & Tails. That was Ivan Jadan's big break. In the audience was Michel Kachouk, manager of such illustrious Russian musicians as Feodor Chaliapin and Serge Koussevitzky. Jadan's family found a home with friends in New Orleans and Impresario Kachouk set out to see what he could do to start Jadan on a new-career...
...Feodor Dostoevsky, then 51 and already famous as the author of Crime and Punishment, decided to become a newspaperman again. He had tried it before, without much success. In fact, journalism was a bad choice for a man who needed all the elbow room of the Russian novel for self-expression. But Dostoevsky felt full of miscellaneous ideas and Messianic urges, and besides, he needed the money. When the aristocratic and crotchety Prince Meshchersky offered him a job as editor of The Citizen (salary: 250 rubles a month), Dostoevsky accepted...