{"product_id":"writers-diary","title":"Writer's Diary","description":"The essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete \u003cem\u003eDiary\u003c\/em\u003e, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. \u003cem\u003eA Writer's Diary\u003c\/em\u003e began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as an editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on \u003cem\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/em\u003e to do so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The \u003cem\u003eDiary\u003c\/em\u003e's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame it incorporated an astonishing variety of material: short stories; humorous sketches; reports on sensational crimes; historical predictions; portraits of famous people; autobiographical pieces; and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared later in the \u003cem\u003eDiary\u003c\/em\u003e itself. A range of authorial and narrative voices and stances and an elaborate scheme of allusions and cross-references preserve and present Dostoevsky's conception of his work as a literary whole. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Selected from the two-volume set, this abridged edition of \u003cem\u003eA Writer's Diary\u003c\/em\u003e appears in a single paperback volume, along with a new condensed introduction by editor Gary Saul Morson.","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":56797291217240,"sku":"9780810115163","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780810115163.jpg?v=1772038844","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/writers-diary","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}