Cartes [1838-1867]

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Miquel Cabal Guarro (Translator)

Gairebé es podria dir que la vida de Dostoievski és més intensa que les seves obres, i els anys més convulsos són els que transcorren entre 1838 i 1867. Aquesta correspondència mostra com va viure esdeveniments tan coneguts com l’èxit de joventut, la condemna a mort i el presidi, i com els deutes, l’addicció al joc i l’amor van influir en la seva manera d’escriure. Dostoievski és un dels casos més clars en què la vida i el context d’un autor són imprescindibles per entendre’n l’obra, no només perquè els esdeveniments sovint li serveixen de font d’inspiració, sinó perquè fets com el renaixement que va experimentar als camps de treball de Sibèria són essencials per entendre les seves grans novel·les. Paradigma de l’escriptor que viu sempre al límit de les circumstàncies, aquestes cartes són també un exemple de resistència, de no deixar-se derrotar mai per les incessants penúries físiques i econòmiques que el van sacsejar, i de tenacitat, per seguir sempre fidel a la determinació de guanyar-se la vida escrivint. La biografia de Dostoievski és una dels més impactants i cèlebres de la literatura, i amb aquestes cartes se’n poden seguir els esdeveniments més rellevants amb les seves pròpies paraules.

Genres: Russia, 19th Century, Russian Literature, Biography

416 pages, Paperback

Published February 24, 2023

About the author

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.

Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .

Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of world literature and consider multiple books written by him to be highly influential masterpieces. They consider his Notes from Underground of the first existentialist literature. He is also well regarded as a philosopher and theologian.

(Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) (see also Fiodor Dostoïevski)

Reviews

[jmbadia · Rating 4 out of 5]

El llibre és una sel.lecció de les cartes que Fyodor Dostoevsky va escriure fins Crim i càstig. Tot i que les cartes són molt prosaiques - gairebé la totalitat són per demanar diners - són molt entretingudes; reflecteixen el seu patiment ecònomic crònic i el daltabaix de cadascuna de les fites biogràfiques.

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dostoevsky is my favorite writer, and my estimation of him as a thinker, a craftsman, and a man have been enhanced by this wonderful collection of letters. They span the whole of his adult life, up to the day of his death. In an overall sense, the letters provide a clear idea of the man, of the struggles he went through simply to make ends meet, but also the difficulties he endured as a result of his harsh jail term and the deaths of several people near and dear to him.

Most importantly though, the letters offer perspective from the man on his own work, as well as on the political, social, and religious culture of the day. Dostoevsky saw himself as a man set apart, constantly crying out to his countrymen in an effort to bring them back to what he believed was their proper path. His perspective on these matters becomes clear reading these letters, a perspective that tends toward what one might call a humanistic conservatism. The later letters in particular find him reflecting on all manner of issues, often in response to readers of his (at the time) popular Diary of a Writer series. These letters in particular offer a breadth of understanding to the man, in his own voice, that make them a unique complement to a good biography on this magnificent writer.