Join Dostoevsky on his tumultuous honeymoon in this hypnotic cult classic, introduced by Susan Sontag. Join Dostoevsky on his tumultuous honeymoon in this hypnotic cult classic , introduced by Susan Sontag. Why was I reading this book now , in a railway-carriage, beneath a wavering, flickering, electric light-bulb.
Summer, The newlywed Dostoevsky and his young wife Anna β his one-time secretary β are travelling to the German spa resort of Baden-Baden on honeymoon. Their love is ecstatic, yet the author is plagued by demons: haunted by his crimes and punishments, consumed by fevers of jealousy, gambling to avoid mounting debts and shaken by epileptic fits.
Winter, s: Our Jewish narrator embarks on a pilgrimage from Moscow to Leningrad to trace the footsteps of his literary hero. It has since been hailed as a trailblazing modern classic, translated into more than twenty languages β and its hypnotic, enigmatic power only grows. That this book exists is a small miracle. One of the most beautiful and oddest books I have read about the singular power literature has over its devotees.
Moving and wry. Fidgety, desperate, and defiantly brilliant , this short shout of a novel perfectly evokes both an apparition of Dostoevsky and the circumstances of its own creation A frantic, frenetic, fever-burst of a novel; a wonderful work of art.
Twisting, genre-bendin g. A single, unitary example of imaginative biography. There is no other novel quite like this one. Experience the absurdities and tragedies of life in the Soviet Union in this extraordinary story collection by the lost Russian masterβ¦. Browse a selection of books we think you might also like, with genre matches and a few wildcards thrown in. Introduced by Margo Jefferson, this is a miniature wonder of a novel by the celebrated poet and first Black author toβ¦.
