Description
Dostoevskys life was marked by brilliance and brutality Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia eventually being accepted into the Tsars inner circle Somehow amidst all this he found time to write short stories journalism and novels such as Crime and Punishment The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov works now recognized as among the finest ever written
In Dostoevsky in Love Alex Christofi weaves carefully chosen excerpts of the authors work with the historical context to form an illuminating and often surprising whole The result is a novelistic life that immerses the listener in a grand vista of Dostoevskys world Along the way Christofi relates the stories of the three women whose lives were so deeply intertwined with Dostoevskys the consumptive widow Maria the impetuous Polina who had visions of assassinating the Tsar and the faithful stenographer Anna
Christofi reconstructs the memoir Dostoevsky might have written had lifeand literary stardomnot intervened He gives us a new portrait of the artist as never before seen a shy but devoted lover an empathetic friend of the people a loyal brother and friend and a writer able to penetrate to the very depths of the human soul
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