Dostoevsky's Unfinished Journey

by Robin Feuer Miller

Book Overview

How does Dostoevsky's fiction illuminate questions that are important to us today? What does the author have to say about memory and invention, the nature of evidence, and why we read? How did his readings of such writers as Rousseau, Maturin, and Dickens filter into his own novelistic consciousness? And what happens to a novel like Crime and Punishment when it is the subject of a classroom discussion or a conversation? In this original and wide-ranging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300211392
• ISBN13: 9780300211399
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"