Fyodor Dostoevsky

Informationen zum Autor Robert Bird was Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago and is the author of several books including Andrei Rublev (2005) and Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema (Reaktion, 2008). Klappentext Robert Bird traces Fyodor Dostoevsky's path from a political revolutionary to one who fought his battles through the printed word. The author describes how Dostoevsky's difficult background contributed to his highly acclaimed novels such as Crime and Punishment (1867) and The Brothers Karamazov. Zusammenfassung Robert Bird traces Fyodor Dostoevsky's path from a political revolutionary to one who fought his battles through the printed word. The author describes how Dostoevsky's difficult background contributed to his highly acclaimed novels such as Crime and Punishment (1867) and The Brothers Karamazov.

Product details

• Authors: Bird, Robert Bird, Bird Robert
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2012
• EAN: 9781861899002
• ISBN: 978-1-86189-900-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Critical Lives; Critical Lives
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form