Read an excerpt from chapter one of DOSTOYEVSKY IN THE FACE OF DEATH, by Julia Kristeva, and translated by Armine Kotin Mortimer.
An original and profound interpretation of one of the nineteenth century’s greatest writers, this book’s insights are also relevant to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—up to our unsettled present, to which Kristeva’s humane reading of the suffering Russian author brings understanding and even solace.
