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2016 Indian film

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Plot

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A second life? To live again? Fyodor Dostoevsky, famously, survived the uncanny pantomime of his own execution, and found himself, on the other side, “reborn into a new form”. These were Dostoevsky’s words, written to his brother in the wake of the ordeal. Here below, those very words are themselves given a kind of second life: in this excerpt from Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life (published earlier this year), Alex Christofi stitches primary source excerpts into a “reconstructed memoir” — the memoir that Dostoevsky himself never wrote. The dream of literature made entirely of quotations reaches back across more than a century of cut-ups, remixes, centos, and collages: from Octavian Esanu’s brilliant JFL, What Does "Why" Mean? (2002), through Guy Debord’s Mémoires (1958), and over the mountain of Walter Benjamin’s landmark “Arcades” project (1927–1940). In 1990, Richard Price’s pioneering history of slave rebellion in Suriname, Alabi’s World (1990), used four different typefaces, one for each of the “voices” being woven into a single work. Here, in this re-collected episode, Christofi, too, is weaving: weaving Dostoevsky’s autobiographical fiction together with his fantastic life.
— D. Graham Burnett, Series Editor

Published

November 10, 2021

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky
October 30, 1821 - January 28, 1881 {Old calendar}
Portrait by V.G. Perov, 1872

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit ~ John 12:24

This Scripture passage appears on Fyodor Dostoevsky's tombstone in St. Petersburg. Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky's {also spelled Dostoyevsky}father was a middle class, former army surgeon and strict family man. Fyodor was educated in Moscow and at the military engineering school in St. Petersburg. This rigid and stuctured upbringing did not suppress Dostoevsky's passion for life, adventure, girls and the desire for fame. During his time at the military school, Fyodor enjoyed attending the theatre and was an avid reader of Russian and European literature. Upon graduation, he resigned his army commission to devote his life to writing. He faced no family resistance as his mother had since died and his father had been killed by serfs. At age 25 {1846}, Dostoevsky completed his first short novel, Poor Folk. The work was of little literary significance. However, a prominent critic of the time, Vissarion Belinsky, saw in it's writer the beginnings of a future great Russian social noveli