Between Russianness & Dostoyevskiness
Oh, dostoyevskiness of a flowing cloud!
Oh, pushkinities of mellow noon!
Night looks like Tyutchev,
Filling boundless with supernal.
Velimir Khlebnikov, 1908-1909.
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Apparently, Fyodor Dostoyevsky became a symbol, an archetype of a Russian writer, along with Lev Tolstoy (‘Tolstoyevsky’). Simplified image of Dostoyevsky’s Russia (or Dostoyevskian Russia) became a part of popular culture both in the West and in Russia. Continue reading “#Dostoyevsky Is the Limit?!”
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