![]() ![]() ![]() I’m almost tempted to say that Dostoevsky became the first blogger when he decided to publish a monthly diary, paid for by subscriptions, in 1873. Review: A Writer’s Diary by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume 1 (1873-1876) Selected from the two-volume set, this abridged edition of A Writer's Diary appears in a single paperback volume, along with a new condensed introduction by editor Gary Saul Morson. A range of authorial and narrative voices and stances and an elaborate scheme of allusions and cross-references preserve and present Dostoevsky's conception of his work as a literary whole. In a single frame it incorporated an astonishing variety of material: short stories humorous sketches reports on sensational crimes historical predictions portraits of famous people autobiographical pieces and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared later in the Diary itself. The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. 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 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. ![]()
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