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Dostoevsky in Love

An Intimate Life

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Dostoevsky in Love

Yazan: Alex Christofi
Seslendiren: Jonathan Keeble
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 '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.©2021 Alex Christofi (P)2021 W. F. Howes Ltd Art & Literature Authors Literary History & Criticism Russian & Soviet World Literature Rusya
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Outstanding book - delighted to find it here for free! A competent reading but badly let down by poor Russian pronunciation: Tsarkoye Tselo becomes “Sarsko Sellow”; Mikhail becomes “Mikhale”, Gogol is “Go-gull” etc. An avoidable error (and one that must have annoyed the author too!)

Great book, performance needs work!

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I knew something about Dostoevsky, whose books I have read and lived, but this book made me realise how much of his life is in his novels.
Very informative, very well written and performed (apart from mispronouncing Fiodor and Karamazov).
Such an unexpected gem!

Dostoevsky, larger than life

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On a quest to learn new things this was a book different to most I read / listen too and I found it fascinating. Helped by good, clear enunciation at a sensible speed.

An insight into his mind

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