The essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete Diary, called his
boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this
abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional
and nonfictional genres. A Writer's Diary began as a column in a
literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out
as a complete monthly publication with himself as an editor,
publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on The Brothers
Karamazov to do so. 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.
General
Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 1997 |
First published: |
July 1997 |
Authors: |
Fyodor Dostoevsky
|
Editors: |
Kenneth Lantz
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Translators: |
Kenneth Lantz
|
Introduction by: |
Gary Saul Morson
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Dimensions: |
84 x 216 x 50mm (L x W x H) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
805 |
Edition: |
Revised |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8101-1516-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8101-1516-6 |
Barcode: |
9780810115163 |
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