Winner 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 ...
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Winner 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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New. ''Man is mystery, '' Dostoevsky writes, ''The mystery must be solved, and even if you spend your whole life attempting to solve it, do not say you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man. '' Dostoevsky's immense and chaotic novels are his attempt to understand this mystery through his life, through writing. Remarkable in comparison to many other great Russian writers, he did not create caricatures of people and did not invent fanciful situations in order to apprehend truths, but sank himself deeply into his existence--its perils and emotions, failures and successes, with a far greater sense of reality--describing men and women as they are. He was engaging a real struggle between a real Christ and a real nihilism. The diaries are the place of his ruminations, where he connects the mind that is utterly free in the construction of the worlds of his fiction, to everyday occurrences, the lives of friends and family, fellow writers and artists, his emotions, and thousands of drafts of writing. Here is Dostoevsky in all his complexity, puzzling out, agonizing over what must be said, annotated by Kenneth Lantz. Volume 1 of 2, 334 pp.
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