1st Edition

Dostoevsky 1821-1881

By E.H. Carr Copyright 1962
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

The bare events of Dostoevsky’s life – his father murdered by peasants, his own ordeal before a firing squad, then exile in Siberia, his epilepsy, gambling, poverty and debts – go far to account for his strange intensity of vision. This biography, first published in 1931, traces his wayward development, from his strict and secluded childhood to his debut as ‘literary pimple’, through his years of... Read more

Introductory Note  Book One  1. Childhood  2. Early Years in Petersburg  3. Firstfruits  4. Catastrophe  5. The House of the Dead  Book Two  6. Exile and First Marriage  7. Journalistic Experiment  8. Intimate Life  9. Years of Anguish  10. Interludes mainly Sentimental  Book Three  11. Annus Mirabilis  12. First Months Abroad  13. Residence Abroad Continued  14. The Ethical Problem – Crime and Punishment  15. The Ethical Ideal – The Idiot  16. Ethics and Politics – The Devils  Book Four  17. Return to Russia  18. Dostoevsky as Psychologist – A Raw Youth  19. Dostoevsky as Publicist – The Journal of an Author  20. Dostoevsky as Prophet – The Brothers Karamazov  21. Apotheosis  22. Epilogue

Biography

Edward Hallett Carr