Fyodor Dostoievsky began his adult life running in politically radical circles, resulting in his arrest and a death sentence. A last minute note from the Tsar stayed his execution as the firing squad took aim. In this volume, Avrahm Yarmolinsky examines the ideology of the man who endured this mock execution, Siberian exile, and other diverse experiences with the human psyche’s darker side. And just as Dostoievsky’s cerebral fiction turned on what was beneath the action, Yarmolinsky’s analysis reaches beyond “the external facts of a man’s life” into the “inner drama of the mind” of one of history’s greatest novelists.
Yarmolinsky focuses chiefly on the testimony of Dostoievsky’s contemporaries and his nonfiction work—particularly the journal Dostoievsky edited, Writer’s Diary. Yarmolinsky is mindful of his subject’s Orthodox faith, as Dostoievsky’s “spirit . . . was ever burning in the wind of faith.” Yarmolinsky also pays close attention to Dostoievsky’s historical context, and how Dostoievsky’s place in nineteenth-century Russian society shaped his ideology. This study of Dostoievsky’s nonfiction surroundings will enhance your experience of the great literary psychologist’s fictional masterpieces.
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Take your study deeper with the Collected Works of Fyodor Dostoievsky.
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AeliusCicero
6/19/2014
Bill Shewmaker
4/24/2014