A Writer's Diary Volume 1
Author | : Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 821 |
Release | : 1997-07-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780810115163 |
ISBN-13 | : 0810115166 |
Rating | : 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Winner of the AATSEEL Outstanding Translation Award This is the first paperback edition of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. 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 in the Diary itself.