piatiknizhie in English

[Elena Ostrovskaya]

Dear George,

The  term looks exteremely strange in Russian. What it means is exactly what
you say, that is "Pentateuch". I guess you cannot just stretch the English
term, you are right. I would use an explanatory construction, something like
'the five major works by Dostoevsky, sometimes called his "Pentateuch", and
then just use the term.

Regards,
Elena Ostrovskaya

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