{"product_id":"dostoevsky-in-love-9781399404860","title":"Dostoevsky in Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wonderfully readable account of one of the great, and difficult, figures in world literature, \u003ci\u003eDostoevsky in Love\u003c\/i\u003e brings the subject brilliantly to life. Anyone who loves his novels will be fascinated by this book. -- Sue Prideaux, author of 'I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche'\u003cbr\u003eChristofi 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. -- Frances Wilson * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eWhether 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. \u003ci\u003eDostoevsky In Love\u003c\/i\u003e is as entertaining as it is insightful. -- Viv Groskop, author of 'The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature'\u003cbr\u003eA wonderfully written life of Dostoevsky, in which the boundaries that conventionally separate biography and autobiography are dissolved to revelatory effect. -- Tom Holland\u003cbr\u003eCombining equal parts fact and fiction with literary flair, Alex Christofi has crafted in \u003ci\u003eDostoevsky in Love\u003c\/i\u003e 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. -- Douglas Smith, author of 'Rasputin: The Biography'\u003cbr\u003eAlex 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. -- Chris Power, novelist and author of 'Mothers'\u003cbr\u003eA 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. * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eInnovative biography ... The sociopolitical ferment of Russia bubble[s] up through Mr Christofi’s pages * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eFluently readable and warmly entertaining * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e[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. * New Humanist *\u003cbr\u003eAn immersive and visceral journey through the life of the revolutionary author … [\u003ci\u003eDostoevsky in Love\u003c\/i\u003e] feels like a cinematic thriller with one of those protagonists that you want to grasp by the shoulders and shake. * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eAn utterly charming, lively and original work that reads like a novel itself. * Globe and Mail *\u003cbr\u003e... 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. N. Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDostoevsky in Love\u003c\/i\u003e, Alex Christofi managed to pack the life and works into just two hundred understated pages. -- Oliver Ready * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eCrafted with novelistic skill, it is a book to fit the vast complexity of the man and his work. -- Frances Wilson * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eAlex 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. -- Sunday Times * Literary Non-fiction Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003e... 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. * Big Issue *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAuthor's Note\u003c\/i\u003e  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  \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407762301271,"sku":"9781399404860","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781399404860.jpg?v=1730500444","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dostoevsky-in-love-9781399404860","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}