The Master of Petersburg
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0749397810 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In 1869, an exiled Russian novelist returns to St Petersburg to collect the effects of his dead stepson. But his papers have fallen into the hands of the Tsarist police, and the novelist is drawn into an underworld of suspicion and revolution as an anarchist wave of terror overtakes the city.
From Publishers Weekly South African novelist Coetzee takes Fyodor Dostoyevski as his protagonist in a novel set amidst the political ferment of 19th-century Russia. . Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc
A deep book well-worth reading. Wendy Woollam The insight and depth into human suffering and understanding is part of J M Coetzee's legacy.as a skilled writer. The story left me with many questions about Russia and the political upheaval it went through. I hope he writes a follow-on book to this one as it would be fascinating to see how everything developed after the timing of this book. Wendy Woollam (in Southn Africa). "The Master of Petersburg by J.M.Coetzee" according to claudia Harper. Set in 1869 in Russia, this book follows the writer Dostoevsky as he searches for reasons for his son Pavel's death. In his intense grief and confusion, he meets and becomes obsessed with his son's landlady Anna, and tries to understand her young daughter, Matryona who seems distant and hostile towards him. He is interrogated by the authorities; and becomes he gets involved with Nachaev, considered a radical revolutionary by the authorities. Through these experiences and conversations, the reader is pulled into Dostoevsky's tho. Following the dance of the pen In J. M. Coetzee's "The Master of Petersburg" when the main character is asked what kind of books he writes, he doesn't know what to respond. Page later, thinking about it he concludes he could have said he `write[s] perversions of the truth. [He chooses] the crooked road and take[s] the children into dark places. [He] follow[s] the dance of the pen'.In novel "The Master of Petersburg" South African writer Coetzee could state that of book he writes is the same kind of his character's -- who, by the way, happens to be Russian ma