Dostoevsky

by John Jones

In a passionate and tender book Jones discusses the narrative techniques and linguistic subtleties of Dostoevsky's novels, what he calls "conspiracies between novelist and reader behind the back of the narrator and his narrative". His object is always to question orthodox readings in
particular those of the editors of the current Soviet edition, and to lay bare "Dostoevsky's power to generate seemingly inexhaustable psychic energy in the form of his readers' diverse intellectual passions". This is a suggestive, unconventional, brilliantly "seen" yet rigorous exposition of one
of the greatest and most "modern" of 19th-century novelists.

376 pages, Paperback

First published August 11, 1983

About the author

Henry John Franklin Jones (known as John Jones) was an English academic, a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Oxford University's 38th Professor of Poetry (1978-1983).

Jones wrote books on diverse literary topics including Greek tragedy, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, as well as a novel, The Same God (1972).