A Writer's Diary

Synopsis

The essential entries from dostoevsky's complete diary, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. A writer's diary began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as an editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on the brothers karamazov to do so. The diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents.