Notebooks for the Idiot

This unique document of the Russian author's creative process is illustrated by facsimiles of original pages from his notebooks, which reveal at least eight plans for the story, with numerous variations on each.

About the author

With his sympathetic portrayals of the downtrodden of 19th-century Russian society, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) exercised immense influence on modern writers. His novels featured profound philosophical and psychological insights that anticipated the development of psychoanalysis and existentialism.
Translator and editor Edward Wasiolek is the Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature and Chairman of the Committee on Comparative Studies in Literature at the University of Chicago.
Editor, translator, and researcher Katharine Anderson Strelsky published numerous translations of works in French, Italian, and Russian and co-edited Alexandra Tolstoy's autobiography, Out of the Past.

Product details

• Authors: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor/ Wasiolek Dostoyevsky
• Assisted by: Edward Wasiolek (Editor), Katharine Strelsky (Translation)
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780486814148
• ISBN: 978-0-486-81414-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; Russisch, Russland, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), UdSSR, Sowjetunion, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren