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The Master of Petersburg: A Novel
The Master of Petersburg: A Novel by J. M. Coetzee 0140238107 9780140238105
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In the fall of 1869 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, lately a resident of Germany, is summoned back to St. Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, Pavel. Half crazed with grief, stricken by epileptic seizures, and erotically obsessed with his stepsons landlady, Dostoevsky is nevertheless intent on unraveling the enigma of Pavels life. Was the boy a suicide or a murder victim? Did he love his stepfather or despise him? Was he a disciple of the revolutionary Nechaev, who even now is somewhere in St. Petersburg pursuing a dream of apocalyptic violence? As he follows his stepsons ghost-and becomes enmeshed in the same demonic conspiracies that claimed the boy-Dostoevsky emerges as a figure of unfathomable contradictions: naive and calculating, compassionate and cruel, pious and unspeakably perverse.

Author: J. M. Coetzee

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 256

Publisher: Penguin Books

Publication Date: 1995-11-01


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