Dostoyevsky - His Life and Work

This book, first published in 1978, demonstrates how Dostoyevsky's novels grew directly out of the pressures of their creator's tormented experience and personality. It draws upon important fresh source material, and considers all Dostoyevsky's works, the ideas they contain, their artistic success and critical reception.

List of contents

1. Boy and Youth 2. Cadet and Officer 3. Apprentice Author: Poor Folk and The Double 4. Political Criminal 5. Convict and Exile: Uncle’s Dream and The Village of Stepanchikovo 6. Memoirist and Journalist: Insulted and Injured; Memoirs from the House of the Dead; and Memoirs from the Underground 7. Emerging Genius: Crime and Punishment and The Gambler 8. Reluctant European: The Idiot 9. Scourge of Socialism: The Eternal Husband and Devils 10. Uneasy Compromiser: A Raw Youth 11. Arbiter of Destiny: The Diary of a Writer 12. Man of the Hour: The Brothers Karamazov

About the author

Ronald Hingley

Summary

This book, first published in 1978, demonstrates how Dostoyevsky’s novels grew directly out of the pressures of their creator’s tormented experience and personality. It draws upon important fresh source material, and considers all Dostoyevsky’s works, the ideas they contain, their artistic success and critical reception.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Hingley, Hingley Ronald
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2021
• EAN: 9780367753122
• ISBN: 978-0-367-75312-2
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russian and Soviet Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Russian, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Historical Fiction / General