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The Master of Petersburg

J.M. Coetzee

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.64 | 2867 Users | 221 Reviews

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Title	:	The Master of Petersburg
Author	:	J.M. Coetzee
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	November 1st 1995 by Penguin Books (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Literature

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In the fall of 1869 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, lately a resident of Germany, is summoned back to St. Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, Pavel. Half crazed with grief, stricken by epileptic seizures, and erotically obsessed with his stepson's landlady, Dostoevsky is nevertheless intent on unraveling the enigma of Pavel's life. Was the boy a suicide or a murder victim? Did he love his stepfather or despise him? Was he a disciple of the revolutionary Nechaev, who even now is somewhere in St. Petersburg pursuing a dream of apocalyptic violence? As he follows his stepson's ghost—and becomes enmeshed in the same demonic conspiracies that claimed the boy—Dostoevsky emerges as a figure of unfathomable contradictions: naive and calculating, compassionate and cruel, pious and unspeakably perverse.

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Original Title:	The Master of Petersburg
ISBN:	0140238107 (ISBN13: 9780140238105)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Irish Times International Fiction Prize (1995), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Africa (1995)

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This book, it seems to me, is more about Coetzee than Dostoyevsky. As a psychological study of Dostoyesky, I was very disappointed. But luckily I did not approach it with those expectations -- I approached it like I approach every Coetzee book: here is one miserable son of a bitch who can sometimes tell good stories but oftentimes gets caught up in ideas or psycho-sexual theorizing. He is, it seems to me, the grandson (literarily speaking) of Dostoyevskian style -- an inner psychologically

Imaginary MemoirsThe first person narrator of "The Master of Petersburg" is Coetzee's imagining of Fyodor Dostoyevsky as he might have been in October, 1869, immediately before he started writing his third novel, "Demons".The Master is living in Dresden, when he is summoned back to St. Petersburg after the sudden death of his stepson, Pavel Isaev, on 12 October.He soon begins to inhabit Pavel's lodgings, haunts and psyche in an attempt to comprehend their shared life and fate and to solve the

4 for the quality of writing, 3 for my enjoyment level. This brought back memories of reading Crime and Punishment many years ago, in its excellent capture of Dostoevskys style. The inner dialogues and claustrophobic atmosphere were pretty overwhelming, and propelled me toward a desire to be finished and somewhere else.

stunning 'what-if' fiction imagines Dostoevsky returning to Petersburg from exile in Dresden on the death of his stepson, Pavel, and getting entangled with his landlady, her daughter and the revolutionary cadre Pavel got involved with. Thought provoking in its debates about revolution and death and its legacy, plus whip sharp in its descriptions of the city and its poverty, it also delves deep into writing/art. Electric.

This is the story of Dostoevsky who tries to understand the subtle death of Pavel, his step-son. Another magnificent book written by one the masters of the contemporary fiction.

Imaginary MemoirsThe first person narrator of "The Master of Petersburg" is Coetzee's imagining of Fyodor Dostoyevsky as he might have been in October, 1869, immediately before he started writing his third novel, "Demons".The Master is living in Dresden, when he is summoned back to St. Petersburg after the sudden death of his stepson, Pavel Isaev, on 12 October.He soon begins to inhabit Pavel's lodgings, haunts and psyche in an attempt to comprehend their shared life and fate and to solve the

this may be coetzee's most ambitious and richly layered novel, seemingly his most personal (his son dead at twenty-three from his own falling accident). while the book triumphs on many levels, not the least of which being the emotional candor he would had to have mustered throughout the writing of it, this is hardly his most powerful work. much of the intense, unabashed rawness of his other (earlier & later) stories is spared here, replaced instead with a contemplative perspective, perhaps