!bookworms thoughts?
Here is Vladimir Nabokov's 
on why Dostoyevsky was a 
writer
https://old.reddit.com/r/literature/comments/17n8lrt/why_did_nabakov_dislike_dostoyevsky_so_much/
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/23/magazine/nabokov-on-dostoyevsky.html
One of the key facts about Nabokov is that he was a cranky old man his whole life.
Lmao
Hemingway talks about Dostoyevsky's unique style quite a lot in A Moveable Feast.
One famous quote is: “I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and yet make you feel so deeply.”
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He considered him a failed reactionary journ*list. My guess was he viewed his books as too politically charged and trying to hard to be realistic.
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