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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book I've read recently that is based on part of Dostoevsky's life (the other was <em>Summer in Baden Baden</em>.  Coetzee does a great job of getting into FD's head as he is dealing with the death of his step-son.  He has FD &quot;novelize&quot; what is happening and what he feels (even g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5982104">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, it seems to me, is more about Coetzee than Dostoyevsky. As a psychological study of Dostoyesky, I was very disappointed. But luckily I did not approach it with those expectations -- I approached it like I approach every Coetzee book: here is one miserable son of a bitch who can sometimes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60003392">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Coetzee imagines the death of Dostoevsky's stepson in this tale of love, politics, angst and the responsibility of a writer to society and his family, set amid the political agitation of 19th century Russia.  Dostoevsky returns from Germany, were he has fled to escape his creditors, to bury his step...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74326732">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>In 1869, Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St. Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky, whom we watch as he obsessively follows his stepson&#8217;s ghost, trying to ascertain whether he was a suicide or a murder victim, and whether he loved or despised his stepfather. The novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia, and a brilliant and courageous meditation on authority and rebellion, art and imagination.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The answer does not matter, as long as he does not flinch. Nor does it matter that he speaks in figures, making his own sordid and contemptible infirmity into the emblematic sickness of the age.&quot;<br/><br/>This quote tends to capture the essence of JM Coetzee for me. His skill is not in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7129792">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well-crafted, but it left me cold. Perhaps I simply didn't like the protagonist (Dostoievsky)and his endless self-probings, doubts, morbidities. For all I know Coetzee has brilliantly penetrated D's mind, but it was not pleasant to spend time there.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this when I was a junior in high school in a seminar devoted to J.M. Coetzee and it helped spark my admiration for and love of Coetzee's work.  Good read.]]></body>
    
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 08 20:21:20 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a story of Fyodor Dostovesky, the book deviates from the truth, but paints an excellent picture of a father who is haunted by death of his step-son.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Une écriture percutante, poétique et crue. Mais l'intrigue de la sombre Russie les personnages, ne m'ont pas touchés.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was not as good as other Coetzee I have read, but it is an interesting literary historical novel nonetheless.  The novel features the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky as its protagonist. It is a deep, complex work that draws on the life of Dostoevsky, the life of the author and the history of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68014815">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An easy enough read, but the story was weak. Compared to Disgrace, this book is a poor relative.<br/><br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this fiction about an exiled Russian author far more than the works of exiled Russian authors.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Master of Petersburg]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[wonderful]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Master of Petersburg]]>
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    <![CDATA[In 1869, an exiled Russian novelist returns to St Petersburg to collect the effects of his dead stepson, Pavel. But the stepson's incriminating papers have been found by the Tsarist police and the novelist finds himself drawn into an underworld of suspicion, revolution and danger.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[My least favorite of Coetze's books, to put it mildly. However, he is formidably honest about the dark side of human nature -- it's ugliness, perversions and ambiguity, and the fine line between what is acceptable and what is despicable. He does this  with no hope of a happy ending for anyone involv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18581088">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Coetzee is my favorite author in the Booker club.  This isn't his best effort, but I devored his depiction of 19th cent. St. Petersburg.  The panic 'D' feels about losing his (step) son is immediate and visceral.  <br/><br/>Lessions Learned:  Russian secret policemen/societies are nothing to be tr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5074734">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this one's a fictionalized account of Dostoevsky's return to russia upon the death of his stepson. i love coetzee most for his exquisite rendering of painfully awkward everyday injustices. i read them wincing. and to imagine fyodor m! what a mind to assume, of all minds! ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard to get unless you understand Russian nihilism. Wish I had read the devils beforehand. ]]></body>
    
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