Dostoevsky
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - yellowed/tanned card cover with wear and marks. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning throughout. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding: Intact paperback binding.
A landmark work of philosophical literary criticism, Dostoevsky by Nicholas Berdyaev presents a profound and penetrating study of one of Russia's greatest literary minds. Berdyaev, himself one of the twentieth century's most celebrated Christian existentialist philosophers, argues that Dostoevsky was not merely a novelist but a visionary thinker whose works constitute a complete spiritual and metaphysical worldview. The book chronicles the great themes running through Dostoevsky's fiction — freedom, suffering, evil, redemption, and the fate of the human soul — and illustrates how these ideas form a coherent religious philosophy. Written with passionate intellectual authority, this study remains one of the most important and illuminating works ever written on Dostoevsky, essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the deeper currents of Russian literature and thought.
Author: Nicholas Berdyaev
Format: Paperback
Published: 1959, Living Age Books / Meridian Books
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - yellowed/tanned card cover with wear and marks. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning throughout. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding: Intact paperback binding.
A landmark work of philosophical literary criticism, Dostoevsky by Nicholas Berdyaev presents a profound and penetrating study of one of Russia's greatest literary minds. Berdyaev, himself one of the twentieth century's most celebrated Christian existentialist philosophers, argues that Dostoevsky was not merely a novelist but a visionary thinker whose works constitute a complete spiritual and metaphysical worldview. The book chronicles the great themes running through Dostoevsky's fiction — freedom, suffering, evil, redemption, and the fate of the human soul — and illustrates how these ideas form a coherent religious philosophy. Written with passionate intellectual authority, this study remains one of the most important and illuminating works ever written on Dostoevsky, essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the deeper currents of Russian literature and thought.