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“... Between 1865 and 1871 Dostoevsky wrote three of the world’s greatest novels, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Possessed – and two remarkable novellas, The Gambler and The Eternal Husband. He also conceived two other major works he never managed to write, and maintained a furious correspondence containing some of his most profound statements on art, society, religion and the creative process ...”

“... arise from and flow back into practice is suspect), Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics, by Gary SaulMorson and Caryl Emerson gives powerful positive evidence of its essential correctness. This is a careful and comprehensive account of the work of a sophisticated thinker who was thoroughly immersed in the ...”

“... with a greatly expanded scholarly apparatus and a brilliant introduction (almost a small book) by Gary SaulMorson, who in 1981 published a remarkable study of the Diary, called The Boundaries of Genre. How, in the first place, did a book such as the Diary come to be written by a novelist like Dostoevsky? We do not ...”