Hiroaki Sato translated "Basho's Narrow Road," "Right Under the Big Sky, I Don't Wear A Hat" and writes frequently on Japanese poetry.
Walker Percy revered Dostoyevsky: "I suppose my model is nearly always Dostoyevsky....I think maybe the greatest novel of all times is 'The Brothers Karamazov'."
The protagonist of Coetzee's novel is Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Canetti's novel of madness and destruction has much in common with the works of Dostoyevsky.
Both Bely, in his novel "Petersburg", and Dostoevsky, in many of his works, use absurdity and black humor to delineate life in pre-Revolutionary Russia.
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Dostoyevski intensely admired Gogol, claiming, "We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat."
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Dostoyevsky was born into a middle-class family without culture. He was educated as an engineer but wrote his first novel at 24: POOR FOLK, a great success that prompted him to write to his brother Mikhail: "I have a most brilliant future before me!" However, soon after, he became involved in a liberal, vaguely revolutionary organization and was sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted at the last moment by the czar, and Dostoyevsky was exiled instead to Siberia, where he did hard labor for more...
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11/11/1821 Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union,
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This is the book that has kept me a Christian (albeit a rather syncretic one) with Father Zosima's exhortation to remain in contact with the "other mysterious worlds", even if Dostoyevsky gives a good argument against Christianity with Ivan's "wee child" and her horrific suffering. 