Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Shattered DreamerBy Grantson Eugene
Length7h 27m
About this audiobook
He wrote about suffering because he had lived every version of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky stood before a firing squad at 28 years old, reprieved at the last possible second, and spent the rest of his life writing as though every word might be his last. Because for a long time, he believed they would be.
Few writers in the history of literature have paid as high a personal price for their art. Dostoevsky survived Siberian exile, crushing poverty, epilepsy, a gambling addiction that destroyed his finances repeatedly, and the early deaths of people he loved most. And out of all of it, he produced novels that are still considered among the most psychologically profound works ever written.
This biographical documentary traces the full arc of his life: his early promise in Saint Petersburg's literary circles, his arrest for political activity, the mock execution that broke something in him and rebuilt something else, the years in the labor camps that gave him the raw material for his greatest explorations of the human condition.
It examines not just the life but the mind. How did a man so consistently undone by his own impulses produce characters of such devastating moral clarity? How did suffering, rather than silencing him, sharpen his insight into what it means to be human?
Dostoevsky understood guilt, redemption, faith, and despair at a level that most writers only theorize about. He had lived them all. This book is for readers who want to understand not just what he wrote but why, and what it cost him to write it.
Order your copy today and step inside the life of the man who turned anguish into literature that has lasted 150 years.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length7 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Fyodor Dostoevsky
11Semipalatinsk Exile
2Foreword
12Resurrection Gambles
3Preface
13Chapter 8
4Acknowledgments
14Crime and Punishment Forge
5Prologue
15Gambler’s Abyss
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6Moscow Origins
16Demons Unleashed
7Engineering Dreams
17Karamazov Summit
8Poor Folk Breakthrough
18Eternal Dreamer
9Petrashevsky Circle
19Epilogue
10Siberian Crucible
20Afterword
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