The sinner and the saint : Dostoevsky, a crime and its punishment
Birmingham, Kevin2021
Books, Manuscripts
This is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder story-and why it changed the world. As a young man, Dostoevsky was a celebrated writer, but his involvement with the radical politics of his day condemned him to a long Siberian exile. There, he spent years studying the criminals that were his companions. Upon his return to St. Petersburg in the 1860s, he fought his way through gambling addiction, debilitating debt, epilepsy, the deaths of those closest to him, and literary banishment to craft an enduring classic.
The sinner and the saint : Dostoevsky, a crime and its punishment / Kevin Birmingham.
Birmingham, Kevin, author
London : Allen Lane, 2021.
432 pages ; 24 cm
9780241235942 (hbk. :)
English
90822