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'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality.…
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1 author picked Dostoevsky in Love as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Have you ever seen the devil? Dostoevsky did. At a grand ball, he glimpsed one of the guests, tucking his tail into his trousers on the way out.
The Dostoevsky who emerges from Christofi’s biography is a haunted, conflicted, deeply flawed character. It is remarkable that he was able to write at all when he was in the depths of his ruinous gambling addiction. Yet from this consciousness came some of the most powerful and prescient novels ever written.
Christofi’s book significantly increased my fascination with this extraordinary writer and human being.
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