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| Original Title: | The Master of Petersburg |
| ISBN: | 0140238107 (ISBN13: 9780140238105) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Irish Times International Fiction Prize (1995), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Africa (1995) |
J.M. Coetzee
Paperback | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 3.64 | 2867 Users | 221 Reviews
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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 stepson's landlady, Dostoevsky is nevertheless intent on unraveling the enigma of Pavel's 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 stepson's 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.
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| Title | : | The Master of Petersburg |
| Author | : | J.M. Coetzee |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 1995 by Penguin Books (first published 1994) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Literature |
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Ratings: 3.64 From 2867 Users | 221 ReviewsArticle Of Books The Master of Petersburg
this may be coetzee's most ambitious and richly layered novel, seemingly his most personal (his son dead at twenty-three from his own falling accident). while the book triumphs on many levels, not the least of which being the emotional candor he would had to have mustered throughout the writing of it, this is hardly his most powerful work. much of the intense, unabashed rawness of his other (earlier & later) stories is spared here, replaced instead with a contemplative perspective, perhapsImaginary MemoirsThe first person narrator of "The Master of Petersburg" is Coetzee's imagining of Fyodor Dostoyevsky as he might have been in October, 1869, immediately before he started writing his third novel, "Demons".The Master is living in Dresden, when he is summoned back to St. Petersburg after the sudden death of his stepson, Pavel Isaev, on 12 October.He soon begins to inhabit Pavel's lodgings, haunts and psyche in an attempt to comprehend their shared life and fate and to solve the
Stunningly beautiful. Themes of consciousness, death, sex, the afterlife, suicide, gambling with God, questions about God's existence, the necessity of narrative, the role of narrative, the act of authorship, illness, independence within the self and from the government. The main character is Dostoevsky--I'm not sure quite how to read fictional stories based on factual people and am sure more resonances would sound if I were more familiar with D's work. Will have to read Crime and Punishment
This is the story of Dostoevsky who tries to understand the subtle death of Pavel, his step-son. Another magnificent book written by one the masters of the contemporary fiction.
I'm sure that I am not the only one who feels an incredible tranquility in reading Coetzee. I know it is strange, but Coetzee's prose has a calming influence on me, regardless of the subject matter. I think it has something to do with the rhythm of the prose - I first became aware of this effect when I read The Master of Petersburg. Yes, its austere Coetzee, but it is also brilliant writing.
stunning 'what-if' fiction imagines Dostoevsky returning to Petersburg from exile in Dresden on the death of his stepson, Pavel, and getting entangled with his landlady, her daughter and the revolutionary cadre Pavel got involved with. Thought provoking in its debates about revolution and death and its legacy, plus whip sharp in its descriptions of the city and its poverty, it also delves deep into writing/art. Electric.
Coetzee doing a remarkable Dostoevsky in character, style, and theme.
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