A writer's diary
"The essential entries from Fyodor 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 the editor, publisher, and sole contributor, postponing 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." "Culled from the two-volume set, this abridged edition of A Writer's Diary includes a new introduction by editor Gary Saul Morson." --Book Jacket
Print Book, English, 2009
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., 2009