Description:The figure of Dostoevsky, who through the sufferings of his life and the excesses of his temperament, fought against despair, created his great novels, and became the prophet of Russian nationalism, will always be of intense human and literary interest.
In addition, his work provides a key to the understanding of recent Russian history, her drive to find herself and not be merely secondhand European. The two parts of this book epitomize his thinking.
The Dream of a Queer Fellow shows so clearly the shape of his mind, while the famous speech on Pushkin brought him his apotheosis as Russian
patriot.