Fyodor Dostoevsky 
The Russian Soul 
Selections from A Writer’s Diary by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dosteovsky's immediate impulse for embarking on A Writer's Diary in 1873 was a desire to come into closer contact with his readers. Published in monthly instalments, it became a unique journalistic enterprise. Far more popular than his novels ever were, the Diary was Dostoevsky's favourite work. Brilliantly introduced by Rosamund Bartlett, the Diary stands revealed as the work of a writer-activist and blogger avant la lettre.

Über den Autor

Rosamund Bartlett is the author of biographies of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and has also published books on Wagner and Shostakovich. Her new translation of Anna Karenina was published in 2014, and follows two anthologies of Chekhov stories and a volume of his letters.