Fyodor Dostoevsky
Robert Bird, "Fyodor Dostoevsky "
English | ISBN: 1861899009 | 2012 | 237 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1861899009 | 2012 | 237 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Demons, The Idiot—the complex and prolific Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–81) is responsible for some of our greatest literary works and most fascinating characters. Praised by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, he is also acknowledged by critics to be a preeminent writer of psychological fiction and a precursor of the twentieth-century existentialism. Set in the troubled political and social world of nineteenth-century Russia, Dostoevsky’s stories were shaped by the great suffering and difficult life the author himself experienced. Robert Bird explores these influences in this new biography of the prominent Russian author.
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