Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Essays Collection

Winter Notes on Summer Impressions; Letters & Reminisances; Virginia Woolf's Essays on Dostoyevsky

De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrado por: Ben Allen, Emma Gregory

Duración: 16 h

Resumen del Editor

Letters and Reminiscences: Collected here are some of Dostoyevsky's finest letters to his family and friends, as-well as reminiscences from those close to him. This audiobook also includes thoughts on his life and work from his contemporaries (including Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy). These letters give an insight into the work, life, and psychology of one of the greatest writers of all time.

Winter Notes on Summer Impressions: In June 1862, Dostoevsky left St. Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan, and Vienna. His impressions on what he saw, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, were first published in the February 1863 issue of "Vremya" (Time), the periodical he edited, and are collected here.

3 Essays on Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf was a great champion of Dostoyevsky's work, and wrote three essays on his life and work, entitled Dostoevsky the Father; More Dostoevsky; and Dostoevsky in Cranford.

Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination, had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction. He is commonly regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived, penning works including four long novels: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. Literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism have been profoundly shaped by his ideas. His works are often called prophetic because he so accurately predicted how Russia’s revolutionaries would behave if they came to power. In his time he was also renowned for his activity as a journalist.

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