A Writer's Diary Volume 2: 1877-1881 Contributor(s): Dostoevsky, Fyodor (Author), Lantz, Kenneth (Translator), Lantz, Kenneth (Notes by) |
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ISBN: 0810115174 ISBN-13: 9780810115170 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $41.58 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, 1877-1881 |
Physical Information: 1.53" H x 5.54" W x 8.38" (1.67 lbs) 644 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This is the second volume 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. |