Volume 4, Number 7 · May 6, 1965
Dostoevsky Abroad
By Helen Muchnic
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Lee Renfield, with a Foreword by Saul Bellow
McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 152 pp., $1.95
Dostoevsky: The Major Fiction
by Edward Wasiolek
M.I.T., 255 pp., $7.50
In the summer of 1862 Dostoevsky went abroad for two-and-a-half months, visiting Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and Italy. His impressions of the journey came out the following February and March in the magazine which, since his release from Siberia, he had been publishing with his brother Michael. The present translation of Winter Notes was first done in 1955 and has been out of print for some time. It is good to have it available again, for this is an entertaining little work, and although a minor one, important as an early statement of some of Dostoevsky's favorite concepts, and interesting as an excellent sample of his acid, journalistic style.
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