Download or read book Fyodor Dostoyevsky written by Geir Kjetsaa and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kjetsaa tells the dramatic story of how Dostoyevsky, the son of an irascible minor aristocrat, rose rapidly to fame as a writer and just as rapidly lost everything--almost including his life--for his liberal political views. Kjetsaa vividly recreates Dostoyevsky's last-minute rescue from a firing squad and explores how his long imprisonment in Siberia profoundly shaped his vision as a novelist.