Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Writer's Life by Siri Hustvedt, Geir Kjetsaa

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Writer's Life

Siri Hustvedt, Geir Kjetsaa

448 pages 1985

5 editions

nonfiction biography challenging reflective slow-paced
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Kjetsaa tells the dramatic story of how Dostoyevsky, the son of an irascible minor aristocrat, rose rapidly to fame as a writer and just as rapidly lost everything--almost including his life--for his liberal political views. Kjetsaa vividly recrea...

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