Description
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 elaborate scheme of allusions and cross-references preserve and present Dostoevsky's conception of his work as a literary whole.
Selected from the two-volume set, this abridged edition of A Writer's Diary appears in a single paperback volume, along with a new condensed introduction by editor Gary Saul Morson.
Reviews
An essential document for understanding this greatly flawed, greatly gifted master." -American Scholar
"Illuminates an entire stretch of Russian cultural history, and is indispensable on this score alone." -Joseph Frank, London Review of Books
Book Information
ISBN 9780810125216
Author Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format Paperback
Page Count 574
Imprint Northwestern University Press
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Weight(grams) 768g
Dimensions(mm) 217mm * 145mm * 38mm