Master of Petersburg

"The figure who emerges from these pages, [Dostoyevsky] himself, in his tortured unhappiness, his terror of the next epileptic seizure, his restless sexuality, and his desperate gambling with God, will seize any imagination still susceptible to the complicated passions of the Slav soul. He will reveal himself as a profound man in the throes of a furious struggle to wring meaning and redemption from the death of a son."Coetzee, J. M. is the author of 'Master of Petersburg', published 1995 under ISBN 9780140238105 and ISBN 0140238107.