Happend on 16. November 1849
A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his execution is canceled at the last minute.
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I was with William Gass and John Barth in Germany recently, and I heard Gass talking marvelously about how, in our age, fiction has taken over much of the function of poetry.
John Hawkes