THE SHORT NOVELS OF DOSTOEVSKYWith an Introduction by Thomas Mann Dial Press ($4).
Some of the most provocative recent writing is contained in a 14-page preface by Novelist Thomas Mann to the reprint of six short novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Few 19th-Century novelists said as much in a whole lifework as did Fyodor Dostoevsky in his short novels. Few 20th-century critics could say, at book length, as much about Dostoevsky as Mann says in the introductory essay in which the great German brilliantly examines the great Russian, and, for the first time, movingly...
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