Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876Winner 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. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictDostoevsky's unorthodox work, which began as a series of columns in 1873, is a pastiche of genres--fiction, journalism, political and cultural criticism, and autobiography. Intended as a vehicle for ... Read full review
Contents
September | 36 |
Introduction | 121 |
Old People | 126 |
Environment | 132 |
Something Personal | 146 |
Vlas | 156 |
Bobok | 170 |
A Troubled Countenance | 186 |
CHAPTER | 471 |
The Defense Attorney and Kairova | 479 |
The Defense Attorney and Velikanova | 485 |
CHAPTER | 491 |
A Democratic Spirit for Certain Women | 500 |
CHAPTER | 505 |
CHAPTER | 515 |
Deduction from My Paradox | 521 |
A HalfLetter from A Certain Person | 195 |
Apropos of the Exhibition | 205 |
An Impersonator | 217 |
Dreams and Musings | 234 |
Apropos of a New Play | 241 |
Little Pictures | 253 |
To a Teacher | 263 |
Something about Lying | 269 |
One of Todays Falsehoods | 279 |
ANNOUNCEMENT | 295 |
A Future Novel Another Accidental Family | 301 |
The Golden Age in Your Pocket | 307 |
A Colony of Young Offenders Dark Individuals | 314 |
CHAPTER THREE | 325 |
Spiritualism Something about Devils | 332 |
A Word Apropos of My Biography | 339 |
On Love of the People An Essential Contract with | 347 |
CHAPTER | 356 |
Mr Spasovichs Speech Clever Tactics | 365 |
The Berries | 373 |
The Family and Our Sacred Ideals A Concluding | 383 |
A HundredYearOld Woman | 389 |
Musings about Europe | 399 |
CHAPTER | 410 |
Lord Radstock | 418 |
Isolated Phenomena | 422 |
Minor Cultural Types Damaged People | 429 |
Confusion and Inaccuracy in the Points at Issue | 435 |
CHAPTER | 449 |
Just a Bit More about Spiritualism | 457 |
On Behalf of One Deceased | 464 |
About Women Again | 531 |
July and August | 537 |
On the Pugnacity of the Germans | 543 |
CHAPTER | 550 |
The Germans and Labor Inexplicable Tricks | 559 |
CHAPTER THREE | 568 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 577 |
Childrens Secrets | 585 |
An Odd Summer for Russia | 594 |
CHAPTER | 605 |
Words Words Words | 611 |
Dressing Gowns and Soap | 618 |
Kifomokievism | 625 |
Fears and Apprehensions | 633 |
CHAPTER | 641 |
A Few Remarks about Simplicity and Simplification | 647 |
The Sentence | 653 |
Cherniaev | 660 |
On the Same Topic | 667 |
CHAPTER | 677 |
A Proposal of Marriage | 683 |
Plans and More Plans | 690 |
A Dreadful Recollection | 698 |
Suddenly the Shroud Fell Away | 706 |
CHAPTER | 721 |
A Belated Moral | 729 |
A Few Words about Young People | 737 |
CHAPTER | 743 |
Where Does the Matter Stand at the Moment? | 749 |
notes | 755 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876 Volume 1 of A Writer's Diary, Fyodor Dostoyevsky Volume 1 of Writer's Diary, 1873-1876 |
| Author | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Translated by | Kenneth Lantz |
| Contributors | Kenneth Lantz, Gary Saul Morson |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0810115166, 9780810115163 |
| Length | 821 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / General Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures Literary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union |
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