| A Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876 Contributor(s): Dostoevsky, Fyodor (Author), Lantz, Kenneth (Translator), Lantz, Kenneth (Notes by) |
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ISBN: 0810115166 ISBN-13: 9780810115163 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $39.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1997 Annotation: The Diary is Dostoevsky's attempt to create a new genre maximally open to present experience and unforeseen historical change--to capitalize on the excitement of an author's creative process, which would itself become material for art, and to demonstrate how an artist reflects on experience as it happens. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Writer's Diary, 1873-1876 |
| Physical Information: 1.87" H x 5.51" W x 8.38" (2.05 lbs) 822 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |