THE DIARY OF A WRITER (1,097 pp.)Feodor DostoevskyScribner ($12.50).
One day in 1872, Feodor Dostoevsky, then 51 and already famous as the author of Crime and Punishment, decided to become a newspaperman again. He had tried it before, without much success. In fact, journalism was a bad choice for a man who needed all the elbow room of the Russian novel for self-expression. But Dostoevsky felt full of miscellaneous ideas and Messianic urges, and besides, he needed the money. When the aristocratic and crotchety Prince Meshchersky offered him a job as editor of The...
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