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Fyodor Dostoevsky, painted in 1872
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Few episodes in fiction can be as hauntingly terrifying as Dostoevsky’s account in The Idiot of what it feels like to face a firing squad, only to have the sentence commuted just as the guns are cocked. Based on the author’s own experience after he was convicted of revolutionary subversion in 1849, it’s a moment that Alex Christofi selects as the opening of his “intimate” biography of the novelist, and it should set the temperature for what ensues.
In contrast to his contemporary Tolstoy, the great analyst of ordinary family life, Dostoevsky mines our psychic extremes: murder, obsession, isolation, dark nights of the soul, all explored in prose that can sometimes become dauntingly awkward and overheated (qualities that have defeated my attempts to finish both The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov).