Dostoevsky by Zweig

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Author: Stefan Zweig ISBN: 1230000036993
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press Publication: December 6, 2012
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Stefan Zweig
ISBN: 1230000036993
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Publication: December 6, 2012
Imprint:
Language: English

Dostoevsky by Zweig by Stefan Zweig (translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul; 43,000 words)

This is the third essay of Stefan Zweig’s Three Masters: Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky, written in the early 20th century. Part biography, part literary criticism, part cultural history, the essay offers a window onto how a Central European regarded the Russian master, who died in 1881, the year Zweig was born.

Dostoevsky’s genius, in Zweig’s view, owed a debt to his illness, as Tolstoy’s did to his radiant health. Illness “enabled Dostoevsky to soar upward into a sphere of such concentrated feeling as is rarely experienced by normal men; it permitted him to penetrate into the underworld of the emotions, into the submerged regions of the psyche.”

This essay is one of the best examples of Zweig’s psychologically-informed literary criticism.

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Dostoevsky by Zweig by Stefan Zweig (translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul; 43,000 words)

This is the third essay of Stefan Zweig’s Three Masters: Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky, written in the early 20th century. Part biography, part literary criticism, part cultural history, the essay offers a window onto how a Central European regarded the Russian master, who died in 1881, the year Zweig was born.

Dostoevsky’s genius, in Zweig’s view, owed a debt to his illness, as Tolstoy’s did to his radiant health. Illness “enabled Dostoevsky to soar upward into a sphere of such concentrated feeling as is rarely experienced by normal men; it permitted him to penetrate into the underworld of the emotions, into the submerged regions of the psyche.”

This essay is one of the best examples of Zweig’s psychologically-informed literary criticism.

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