Diary of a Writer (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- First Published: 1873
- Type of Work: Periodical journalism
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, Diary, Journalism
- Subjects: Language or languages, Traveling or travelers, Nineteenth century, Writing, Trains, Railroads, Russia or Russian people, Peasantry or peasants
Critical Evaluation:
Dostoevski began his series of articles in the Petersburg Citizen with the plan of talking in an informal way about any subject in current events that impressed or appealed to him. He did not intend the articles to be a specifically literary endeavor and they are not, although literary subjects appear frequently. Nor did he intend his writing to be predominantly political, although he expounds his political philosophy and his slavophilic ideas at intervals throughout. This was to be a personal and freely-ranging undertaking; hence he called it a diary. It...
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