Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life - Couverture rigide

Christofi, Alex

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1472964691 ISBN 13 : 9781472964694

Editeur : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2021

Synopsis

Literary Non-fiction Book of the Year (2021) by The Times and Sunday Times
'Beautifully crafted and realised' -- Guardian

Dostoevsky's 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 Tsar's inner circle. He had three great love affairs, each overshadowed by debilitating epilepsy and addiction to gambling. Somehow, amid 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 recognised as among the finest ever written.

In Dostoevsky in Love Alex Christofi weaves excerpts of the author's work with the historical context to immerse the reader in Dostoevsky's world: from the Siberian prison camp to the gambling halls of Europe; from the dank prison cells of the Tsar's fortress to the refined salons of St Petersburg.

Reading between the lines of his fiction, Christofi reconstructs the memoir Dostoevsky might have written had life - and literary stardom - not 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alex Christofi is Editorial Director at Transworld Publishers and author of four books published in 12 languages, including Glass, winner of the Betty Trask Prize for fiction, Dostoevsky in Love and Cypria. He has written for numerous publications including the Guardian, London Magazine, White Review and the Brixton Review of Books.

Dostoevsky in Love, his first work of non-fiction, was shortlisted for the Biographers' Club Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and named as a Literary Non-fiction Book of the Year by the Times and Sunday Times.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Continuum
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472964691
• ISBN 13: 9781472964694
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible