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The Russian Soul: Selections from a Writer`s Diary

A new anthology of Dostoevsky`s remarkable work `A Writer`s Diary`. A voluminous and variegated miscellany in which the celebrated author spoke to his readers about issues concerning Russia, it is a work as eerily prescient of global preoccupations in the twenty-first century as it is frequently overlooked. Dostoevsky`s Writer`s Diary was also his creative laboratory, and proves to be a source of fundamental importance in understanding the complex mind behind his artistic works.`Virulent nationalism, religious extremism, ethnic intolerance, urban deprivation, child abuse, suicide, opinionated criticism, intimate confession, utopian dreaming, genial digression, moral fervour, profound insight, macabre humour and superlative fiction – welcome to the world of Dostoevsky`s A Writer`s Diary. ` – Rosamund Bartlett