DostoevskyNew Directions, 1961 - 181 pagine This was the first publication in English in its entirety of Gide's critical study of the Russian genius. Albert J. Guerard notes in his introduction, "[This book] conveys . . . the excitement of intensely personal and sympathetic reading and the shock of recognition." |
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... thing singlehanded . I revised proofs , kept in touch with the authors and with the Censorship , found the necessary money . I was up till six in the morning , and took only five hours sleep . I at last managed to put the review on its ...
... thing singlehanded . I revised proofs , kept in touch with the authors and with the Censorship , found the necessary money . I was up till six in the morning , and took only five hours sleep . I at last managed to put the review on its ...
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... thing , one thing needful : one has only to dare ! Then for the first time in my life an idea took shape in my mind which no one had ever thought of before me , not one ! I saw as clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single ...
... thing , one thing needful : one has only to dare ! Then for the first time in my life an idea took shape in my mind which no one had ever thought of before me , not one ! I saw as clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single ...
Pagina 174
... things by their names , preserving unruffled countenances as though it were the natural thing to do ; we entered into such subtleties in our description of all sorts of filth and obscenity as the nastiest mind of the lewdest debauchee ...
... things by their names , preserving unruffled countenances as though it were the natural thing to do ; we entered into such subtleties in our description of all sorts of filth and obscenity as the nastiest mind of the lewdest debauchee ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE FIRST EDITION 1925 xvii | 9 |
DOSTOEVSKY IN HIS CORRESPONDENCE 1908 | 19 |
Copyright | |
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