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Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life

Autor Alex Christofi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iul 2022

Imagineați-vă un tânăr revoluționar stând în fața plutonului de execuție, așteptând glonțul care nu va mai veni, doar pentru a fi trimis în gerul Siberiei. Descoperim în Dostoevsky in Love că viața lui Fyodor Dostoevsky a fost la fel de intensă și fragmentată ca romanele sale. Ceea ce diferențiază această lucrare de biografiile clasice este metoda îndrăzneață a lui Alex Christofi: el reconstruiește vocea marelui scriitor împletind fragmente din scrisori, jurnale și ficțiune, creând acele memorii pe care Dostoievski nu a mai apucat să le scrie. Găsim aici un portret intim, care ne poartă din celulele umede ale fortăreței țariste până la mesele de joc din cazinourile europene.

Această abordare narativă se simte ca o continuare firească a stilului lui Alex Christofi, care în romane precum Let Us Be True a explorat profunzimea emoțională a personajelor aflate în momente de criză. Dacă biografia monumentală scrisă de Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky, este o analiză academică exhaustivă a contextului ideologic, volumul de față este așezat pe același raft, dar cu un accent pe experiența umană brută, pe vulnerabilitatea unui bărbat chinuit de epilepsie și de iubiri mistuitoare.

Structura cărții este riguros cronologică, începând cu „Nopți albe” și terminând cu apoteoza sa ca „Profet” al națiunii ruse. Cuprinsul ne indică o călătorie prin punctele de cotitură ale creației sale, de la „Casa morților” la „Frații Karamazov”, oferind contextul real din spatele celor mai celebre scene literare. Este o biografie imersivă care transformă datele istorice într-o narațiune vie, demnă de un premiu pentru non-ficțiune literară.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781399404860
ISBN-10: 1399404865
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care doresc să înțeleagă omul din spatele capodoperelor rusești, fără bariera unui text academic dens. Câștigați o perspectivă nouă asupra modului în care suferința personală — de la simularea execuției la patima jocurilor de noroc — s-a transformat în literatură universală. Este o lectură esențială pentru a vedea cum Fyodor Dostoevsky a reușit să pătrundă în adâncurile sufletului uman tocmai pentru că și-a trăit propria viață la limită.


Descriere

Literary Non-fiction Book of the Year (2021) by The Times and Sunday Times
'Beautifully crafted and realised' -- Guardian

Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the Tsar's inner circle. He had three great love affairs, each overshadowed by debilitating epilepsy and addiction to gambling. Somehow, amid all this, he found time to write short stories, journalism and novels such as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, works now recognised as among the finest ever written.

In Dostoevsky in Love Alex Christofi weaves excerpts of the author's work with the historical context to immerse the reader in Dostoevsky's world: from the Siberian prison camp to the gambling halls of Europe; from the dank prison cells of the Tsar's fortress to the refined salons of St Petersburg.

Reading between the lines of his fiction, Christofi reconstructs the memoir Dostoevsky might have written had life - and literary stardom - not intervened. He gives us a new portrait of the artist as never before seen: a shy but devoted lover, an empathetic friend of the people, a loyal brother and friend, and a writer able to penetrate to the very depths of the human soul.

Cuprins

Author's Note

Prologue: Life is a Gift (1849)
1 White Nights (1821-45)
2 Circles within Circles (1846-49)
3 The Dead House (1850-54)
4 The Devil's Sandbox (1854-59)
5 Young Russia (1860-62)
6 Polina (1863)
7 Epoch's End (1864-66)
8 The Gambler (1866-67)
9 The Idiot (1867)
10 Death for the Russian (1868-71)
11 The Citizen (1872-77)
12 The Prophet (1878-81)
Epilogue

Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index

Recenzii

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.
Fluently readable and warmly entertaining
A wonderfully written life of Dostoevsky, in which the boundaries that conventionally separate biography and autobiography are dissolved to revelatory effect.
Alex Christofi collages fragments from the fiction and journals to explore Dostoevsky's three great love affairs. The result, a meticulously sourced, semi-novelistic "biography", is both immersive and extraordinary.

... 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Innovative biography ... The sociopolitical ferment of Russia bubble[s] up through Mr Christofi's pages
[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.
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.
Crafted with novelistic skill, it is a book to fit the vast complexity of the man and his work.
An utterly charming, lively and original work that reads like a novel itself.
In Dostoevsky in Love, Alex Christofi managed to pack the life and works into just two hundred understated pages.
Christofi creates a kind of speculative memoir, part juicy information, part romantic guesswork. For me it worked beautifully, being both unexpectedly moving.and an exciting, unpredictable page-turner.