Dostoevsky in Love - An Intimate Life

Zusatztext ... Christofi creates a kind of speculative memoir, part juicy information, part romantic guesswork. For me it worked beautifully, being both unexpectedly moving.and an exciting, unpredictable page-turner. Informationen zum Autor Alex Christofi is Editorial Director at Transworld Publishers and author of three books published in 12 languages, including the novels Let Us Be True and Glass , winner of the Betty Trask Prize for fiction. He has written for numerous publications including the Guardian , London Magazine , White Review and the Brixton Review of Books , and contributed an essay to the anthology What Doesn't Kill You: Fifteen Stories of Survival. 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 .alexchristofi.com / @alex_christofi Klappentext 'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book ' - Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche 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, amidst 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 carefully chosen excerpts of the author's work with the historical context to form an illuminating and often surprising whole. The result is a novelistic life that immerses the reader in a grand vista of 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. Along the way, Christofi relates the stories of the three women whose lives were so deeply intertwined with Dostoevsky's: the consumptive widow Maria; the impetuous Polina who had visions of assassinating the Tsar; and the faithful stenographer Anna, who did so much to secure his literary legacy. 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. Vorwort A highly original and immersive new biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, published to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth. Zusammenfassung 'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche 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, amidst all this, he found time to write short stories, journalism and novels such as Crime and Punishment , The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazo...

List of contents

Author's Note

Prologue: Life is a Gift (1849)
1 White Nights (1821-45)
2 Circles within Circles (1846-49)
3 The Dead House (1850-54)
4 The Devil's Sandbox (1854-59)
5 Young Russia (1860-62)
6 Polina (1863)
7 Epoch's End (1864-66)
8 The Gambler (1866-67)
9 The Idiot (1867)
10 Death for the Russian (1868-71)
11 The Citizen (1872-77)
12 The Prophet (1878-81)
Epilogue

Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index

About the author

Alex Christofi is Editorial Director at Transworld Publishers and author of three books published in 12 languages, including the novels Let Us Be True and Glass, winner of the Betty Trask Prize for fiction. He has written for numerous publications including the Guardian, London Magazine, White Review and the Brixton Review of Books, and contributed an essay to the anthology What Doesn't Kill You: Fifteen Stories of Survival. 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.

alexchristofi.com / @alex_christofi

Product details

• Authors: Alex Christofi, Christofi Alex
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2022
• EAN: 9781399404860
• ISBN: 978-1-399-40486-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Russia, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union, c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900