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Kjetsaa tells the dramatic story of how Dostoyevsky, the son of an irascible minor aristocrat, rose rapidly to fame as a writer and just as rapidly lost everything--almost including his life--for his liberal political views. Kjetsaa vividly recreates Dostoyevsky's last-minute rescue from a firing squad and explores how his long imprisonment in Siberia profoundly shaped his vision as a novelist.Kjetsaa, Geir is the author of 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Writer's Life' with ISBN 9780449903346 and ISBN 0449903346.
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