Fyodor Dostoevsky

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about the books I’ve been reading. The truth is, I haven’t given up. Just reading at a slower pace, and waiting too long to blog about it. This week I’ll be trying to play catch up to get where we’re at. The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky was #20 in my book-a-week conquest for 2009. I started reading it by the pool, then with my dog in the park, then gradually finished the thing on short breaks at work. It’s difficult to read landmark Russuan fiction while listening to coworkers compare crazy weekend stories, but you ... Read Full Story

Thanks to Georgia Cool for alerting to me to the Greats of Russian Literature Represented in Gingerbread (see below).  They are the work of Woolylogic , who is a Dostoevsky fan, as you can maybe tell from the hand protectively enclosing Fyodor Mikhailovich’s turbulent idea-filled head.     Read Full Story

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was halfway thru reading this book when I met a retired Russian chemist (who was suffering from lung cancer) in one of my gigs, and we discussed about our common interests in reading books. I was surprised to hear from her about Dostoevsky's books being not among her top choices for her reading fare (I saw books everywhere in her house, mostly non English ones), just like others in her personal network. She said, Dostoevsky writes in the ultimate dramatic way (almost histrionic, I thought to myself, and to which I ... Read Full Story

· A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens · A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce · A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens · Aesop's Fables by Aesop · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll · Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen · Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy · Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery · Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne · Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche · Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky · David Copperfield by Charles Dickens · Down and Out in Paris and London ... Read Full Story

Press Release For Immediate Release : October 2008 Contact: Zygmunt Dyrkacz 773.278.1500 info@chopintheatre.com Performance: I- Fest 2008, Best of European Solo Acts Description: Fourth edition of I-Fest presents Mr. Oleg Liptsin taking on Dostoevsky’s "A Propos of the Wet Snow " and Mr. William El-Gardi taking on the Shakespeare inspired Yasser by Abdelkader Benali. I-Fest performances (15 from 10 countries in past 3 years –- Austria, England, Finland, France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland and Ukraine) give a stage to nonconforming citizens. They choose their language, material and art form closest to their own I. They represent the growing population of individuals influenced by ... Read Full Story