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<p>The Diary is Dostoevsky's attempt to create a new genre maximally open to present experience and unforeseen historical change--to capitalize on the excitement of an author's creative process, which would itself become material for art, and to demonstrate how an artist reflects on experience as it happens.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>This concluding volume of Dostoevsky's experimental one-man journal (he was its editor, publisher and sole contributor until his death in 1881) is a melange of political commentary, observations on current events, reportage of sensational murders, philosophical musings and literary criticism on Tolstoy, Turgenev and Pushkin. Dostoevsky's idealized vision of the Russian people as a nascent fellowship of Christ who reject the values of the godless, materialistic West is a recurrent theme. Offering a ringside seat to the growth of German nationalism under Bismarck, the Russo-Turkish War, political instability in France's Third Republic and the cauldron of Eastern European nationalisms, these voluble outpourings are also of interest for their sketches of ideas developed more fully in The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoevsky's vicious, poisonous tirades a

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Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Gary Saul Morson; Kenneth Lantz

Publisher

Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780810115163

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.09 / 5 (40 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13