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    The prelude to a downfall… and reimagining the life of a Russian master

    Dec 20, 2021 4 minutes

    Dostoevsky in Love

    By Alex Christofi

    (Bloomsbury, £20)

    I knew a lot about the troubled life of Fyodor Dostoevsky before I read this biography – his rebellious youth, his last-minute reprieve from execution, his addictions and debts, his many extra-marital affairs. But Christofi’s hybrid approach to the story of a writer’s life is so original that prior knowledge of events does not detract from the pleasure of its reading. In an act of audacious imagination, he combines traditional factual accounts and quotes from personal letters with excerpts from Dostoevsky’s fiction which are (probably) based on the philosopher novelist’s personal experience.

    The standard third-person historical detailing is all

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