| Title | : | Dostoevsky By Zweig |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Stefan Zweig |
| Release | : | 2012-11-30 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs, Books, Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism |
| Size | : | 564005 |
| 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. |
