"No scholar has made such exhaustive and revealing use of all the evidence of the notebooks ... In an attempt to clarify Dostoevsky's art and thought."--New York Times Book Review "An extensive study of the development of Dostoevsky's creative art and intellectual thought by an analysis in depth of the total corpus of his writings."--Ernest J. Simmons, New York Times

"No scholar has made such exhaustive and revealing use of all the evidence of the notebooks ... In an attempt to clarify Dostoevsky's art and thought."--New York Times Book Review "An extensive study of the development of Dostoevsky's creative art and intellectual thought by an analysis in depth of the total corpus of his writings."--Ernest J. Simmons, New York Times