Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life

Author:   Alex Christofi
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781472964694


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 January 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Alex Christofi
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Continuum
Weight:   0.518kg
ISBN:  

9781472964694


ISBN 10:   1472964691
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 January 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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A wonderfully readable account of one of the great, and difficult, figures in world literature, Dostoevsky in Love brings the subject brilliantly to life. Anyone who loves his novels will be fascinated by this book. * Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche * Christofi immerses us in the forcefield of Dostoevsky's thought ... Beautifully crafted and realised, but it is the great love that Christofi feels for his subject that makes this such a moving book. * Frances Wilson, Guardian * Whether you know everything or nothing about Dostoevsky, whether you love or hate him (and he was extremely annoying), this is the perfect modern biography. A celebration of human complexity which fuses surprising new information about the life of the writer with a passionate love for his books. Alex Christofi has created the most charismatic and engaging portrait of a tortured, brilliant man. Dostoevsky In Love is as entertaining as it is insightful. * Viv Groskop, author of The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature * A wonderfully written life of Dostoevsky, in which the boundaries that conventionally separate biography and autobiography are dissolved to revelatory effect. * Tom Holland * Combining equal parts fact and fiction with literary flair, Alex Christofi has crafted in Dostoevsky in Love a stunning, genre-bending work certain to captivate fans of Dostoevsky and the Russian classics. A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography. * Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography * Alex Christofi has created a dazzling hybrid, a narrative account of Dostoevsky's life that blends the known facts with his letters and the most autobiographical elements of his fiction. The effect is like that of colourised film footage: the Dostoevsky that shambles through these pages possesses an immediacy and a realness that's almost uncanny. * Chris Power, novelist and author of Mothers * A fierce account of Dostoevsky's inner and outer life ... Christofi's rapidly unrolling tapestry helps to capture the madcap, tumbling and ferocious quality of Dostoevsky's style * Financial Times * Innovative biography ... The sociopolitical ferment of Russia bubble[s] up through Mr Christofi's pages * Wall Street Journal * Fluently readable and warmly entertaining * Daily Telegraph * [A] compelling portrait of the writer's inner world ... Christofi reminds us how much Dostoevsky's own failings and endless remorse informed his work and shaped his characters. My only caveat is that this lively account is too short. * New Humanist * An immersive and visceral journey through the life of the revolutionary author ... [Dostoevsky in Love] feels like a cinematic thriller with one of those protagonists that you want to grasp by the shoulders and shake. * Irish Times * An utterly charming, lively and original work that reads like a novel itself. * Globe and Mail * ...qualities which we ascribe to [Dostoevsky's] unforgettable fictional characters, were all to be found in Fyodor himself and Christofi describes them with warmth and understanding. * A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement *


A wonderfully readable account of one of the great, and difficult, figures in world literature, Dostoevsky in Love brings the subject brilliantly to life. Anyone who loves his novels will be fascinated by this book. * Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche * Combining equal parts fact and fiction with literary flair, Alex Christofi has crafted in Dostoevsky in Love a stunning, genre-bending work certain to captivate fans of Dostoevsky and the Russian classics. A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography. * Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography *


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Alex Christofi is Editorial Director at Transworld Publishers and author of three books published in 12 languages, including the novels Let Us Be True and Glass, winner of the Betty Trask Prize for fiction. He has written for numerous publications including the Guardian, London Magazine, White Review and the Brixton Review of Books, and contributed an essay to the anthology What Doesn't Kill You: Fifteen Stories of Survival. Dostoevsky in Love, his first work of non-fiction, was shortlisted for the Biographers' Club Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and named as a Literary Non-fiction Book of the Year by the Times and Sunday Times. alexchristofi.com / @alex_christofi

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