A Writer's Diary by Dostoevsky, Fyodor; Morson, Gary Saul [Editor]; Lantz, Kenneth [Translator]; Morson, Gary Saul [Introduction];

Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2009. New Book. Paperback. 648 pp. The essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete Diary, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. A Writer's Diary began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as an editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on The Brothers Karamazov to do so. The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame it incorporated an astonishing variety of material: short stories; humorous sketches; reports on sensational crimes; historical predictions; portraits of famous people; autobiographical pieces; and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared later in the Diary itself. A range of authorial and narrative voices and stances and an… Read More

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Northwestern Univ Pr, 2009. Paperback. New. abridged edition. 500 pages. 8.50x5.00x1.50 inches.