Publisher's Synopsis
The book of the famous German philologist, specialist in the works of FM Dostoevsky, Hans-Jurgen Gehrigk "Literary mastery of Dostoevsky in development. From the "Notes from the Dead House" to the "Brothers Karamazov" "reduces, according to the author himself," all that he ever thought about Dostoevsky. "The purpose of this book is to support the natural, not based on literary knowledge, understanding of the reader and to facilitate his approach to Dostoevsky's main texts, and also to clarify the relevance of Dostoevsky, who continues to "hurt us for the living."