Word: dostoevskian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fish and A Child of Our Time. These had given him a European reputation as one of the most gifted German writers of his generation. That reputation was confirmed by most U. S. critics last February with the English translation of The Age of the Fish, a poetic, Dostoevskian Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in which a young German schoolmaster discovers the maggots in Nazi morality...
...scholarly and original papers like that of Professor Newton Arvin of Smith College on Roots of American Literature, there were bewilderingly hair-splitting literary squabbles that ranged from attacks on Gone With The Wind to attacks on Stalin and the French Popular Front. Now and then there were Dostoevskian interludes when embittered poets or philosophers interrupted the proceedings with autobiographical statements or expositions of their personal credos. Since in any group of 360 U. S. writers there are sure to be some who have commented unfavorably on the work of others present, professional hostility sometimes hampered objective discussion. Closest...
When Tess Slesinger's first novel, The Unpossessed, appeared last year (TIME, May 14, 1934), critics gave it three rousing cheers. But few thought it Dostoevskian, none noticed that its title was a salute to the Russian master. Critical consensus was that Author Slesinger was a wit, which did not mean that her story was altogether funny. Last week her second book, a collection of short stories, not only deepened but broadened the impression her first one made. In Time: The Present Author Slesinger shows herself the somewhat proud possessor of what professors call "creative imagination." She has already...
...appears only once in a blue moon. Last week U. S. readers were rubbing amazed eyes, asking themselves if the moon were not once again blue. For Duel, Norwegian Author Ronald Fangen's first, book to be brought out in the U. S.. shone with an unmistakably Dostoevskian light. Like his great prototype. Author Fangen is a foreigner but his translated words need no visa. The world he writes about is the same world of which most U. S. readers feel themselves citizens, a country inhabited not by brain-fevered intellectuals but by human beings whose hearts...