The Notebooks for The Idiot by Edward Wasiolek, Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Notebooks for The Idiot

Edward Wasiolek, Fyodor Dostoevsky with Katharine Strelsky (Translator)

256 pages first pub 1968 (view editions)

nonfiction reflective medium-paced
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After publishing the first part of The Idiot in The Russian Messenger, Dostoyevsky had no idea how to continue the story. The second part, in fact, is a quite different novel. The author's notebooks reveal at least eight plans for the tale, with n...

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