The Novel in the Age of Disintegration

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ISBN 978-0-8101-2926-9The Novel in the Age of Disintegration
—Nina Perlina in Slavic Review
"This book is distinguished from other studies of Dostoevskii in two ways: first, it offers an in-depth analysis of two rarely examined texts: The Adolescent and A Writer’s Diary. Second, the book examines Dostoevskii’s poetics of the 1870s with detailed references to historical, literary and religious documents, arguing that his work is a conscious response to social disintegrations and an expression of his wish for unities... To argue that Dostoevskii’s world is pluralistic is far from a novel point of view. Holland manages to reiterate this point by looking at the subtle shifts of genres within the Diary and individual novels, which are experimental and yet reasonable responses in face of the age of disintegration." —Slavic and East European Review