A Writer's Diary Volume 2: 1877-1881 (Writer's Diary 1877-1881)

About this book

This is the second volume of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevskys boldest experiment with literary form; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. The Diarys radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. 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 in the Diary itself.