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A Diary of a Writer (1880-1881) The final issues of Dostoevsky’s Diary of a Writer were his last publications before his death. They contain a transcript of his speech about Alexander Pushkin, a speech that, as I mentioned before, became a national event. Pushkin, more than any other author, is Dostoevsky’s guiding light, and soContinue reading

A Diary of a Writer (1876-1877) In May of 1876, twenty-year-old Ekaterina Kornilova pushed her six-year-old step-daughter out a fourth story window. Kornilova and her husband had married for love but had begun fighting. During their fights, he repeatedly told Kornilova that she was falling short of the example of his first wife (the six-year-old’sContinue reading