num_pages: 448
description: Kjetsaa tells the dramatic story of how Dostoyevsky, the son of an irascible minor aristocrat, rose rapidly to fame as a writer and just as rapidly lost everything--almost including his life--for his liberal political views. Kjetsaa vividly recreates Dostoyevsky's last-minute rescue from a firing squad and explores how his long imprisonment in Siberia profoundly shaped his vision as a novelist.
language: Norwegian
title: Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Writer's Life
titlecomplete: Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Writer's Life
genres: Russia, Biography, Literature, Russian Literature, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 127
publisher: Ballantine Books