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Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Release : 1968
Genre : Authors, Russian
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Book Synopsis The Notebooks for The Possessed by : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Download or read book The Notebooks for The Possessed written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. This book was released on 1968. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elif Batuman
Release : 2010-02-16
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 41X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Possessed by : Elif Batuman
Download or read book The Possessed written by Elif Batuman. This book was released on 2010-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year From the author of Either/Or and The Idiot, Elif Batuman’s The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devoted—Absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully!—to the Russian Classics. No one who read Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford University during a conference about the enigmatic writer Isaac Babel. Over the course of several pages, Batuman managed to misplace Babel's last living relatives at the San Francisco airport, uncover Babel's secret influence on the making of King Kong, and introduce her readers to a new voice that was unpredictable, comic, humane, ironic, charming, poignant, and completely, unpretentiously full of love for literature. Batuman's subsequent pieces—for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and the London Review of Books— have made her one of the most sought-after and admired writers of her generation, and its best traveling companion. In The Possessed we watch her investigate a possible murder at Tolstoy's ancestral estate. We go with her to Stanford, Switzerland, and St. Petersburg; retrace Pushkin's wanderings in the Caucasus; learn why Old Uzbek has one hundred different words for crying; and see an eighteenth-century ice palace reconstructed on the Neva. Love and the novel, the individual in history, the existential plight of the graduate student: all find their place in The Possessed. Literally and metaphorically following the footsteps of her favorite authors, Batuman searches for the answers to the big questions in the details of lived experience, combining fresh readings of the great Russians, from Pushkin to Platonov, with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence—including her own.
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Release : 2017-03-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 149/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Notebooks for The Idiot by : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Download or read book The Notebooks for The Idiot written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. This book was released on 2017-03-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique document of the Russian author's creative process is illustrated by facsimiles of original pages from his notebooks, which reveal at least eight plans for the story, each with numerous variations.
Author : Alex Christofi
Release : 2021-01-21
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 705/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dostoevsky in Love by : Alex Christofi
Download or read book Dostoevsky in Love written by Alex Christofi. This book was released on 2021-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' – Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' – Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the Tsar's inner circle. He had three great love affairs, each overshadowed by debilitating epilepsy and addiction to gambling. Somehow, amidst all this, he found time to write short stories, journalism and novels such as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, works now recognised as among the finest ever written. In Dostoevsky in Love Alex Christofi weaves carefully chosen excerpts of the author's work with the historical context to form an illuminating and often surprising whole. The result is a novelistic life that immerses the reader in a grand vista of Dostoevsky's world: from the Siberian prison camp to the gambling halls of Europe; from the dank prison cells of the Tsar's fortress to the refined salons of St Petersburg. Along the way, Christofi relates the stories of the three women whose lives were so deeply intertwined with Dostoevsky's: the consumptive widow Maria; the impetuous Polina who had visions of assassinating the Tsar; and the faithful stenographer Anna, who did so much to secure his literary legacy. Reading between the lines of his fiction, Christofi reconstructs the memoir Dostoevsky might have written had life – and literary stardom – not intervened. He gives us a new portrait of the artist as never before seen: a shy but devoted lover, an empathetic friend of the people, a loyal brother and friend, and a writer able to penetrate to the very depths of the human soul.
Author : Cool Notebooks
Release : 2019-10-15
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Book Rating : 172/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Notebook by : Cool Notebooks
Download or read book Notebook written by Cool Notebooks. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Halloween spirit pun funny costume gift" shirt, the perfect gift idea for Trick Or Treat fans. Cool Birthday, Christmas for Best Friend & friend, mom, dad, sister.
