Fyodor Dostoevsky-In the Beginning (1821-1845):. Marullo<|

Fyodor Dostoevskyin the Beginning (18211845)A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism\nAuthor(s): Thomas Gaiton Marullo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Northern Illinois University Press\nISBN-13: 9780875807461, 978-0875807461\nSynopsis\nMore than a century after his death in 1881, Fyodor Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers and reviewers. Countless studies of his writing have been publishedmore than a dozen in the past few years alone. In this important new work, Thomas Marullo provides a diary-portrait of Dostoevsky's early years drawn from the letters, memoirs, and criticism of the writer, as well as from the testimony and witness of family and friends, readers and reviewers, and observers and participants in his life. Marullo's exhaustive search of published materials on Dostoevsky sheds light on many unexplored corners of Dostoevsky's childhood, adolescence, and youth. Speakers of excerpts are given maximum freedom: Anything t.