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de J.M. Coetzee (Author)
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South African novelist Coetzee takes Fyodor Dostoyevski as his protagonist in a novel set amidst the political ferment of 19th-century Russia.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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St. Petersburg is poised for revolution as Fyodor Dostoevsky returns from Germany to claim his deceased stepson's papers. Although the police rule Pavel's death a suicide, the famous writer is drawn into a group of shady characters, including the anarchist Nechaev, who is possibly Pavel's killer. Plagued by seizures and tormented by a torrid affair with his stepson's landlady, Dostoevsky struggles to ascertain once and for all a writer's responsibility to his family and society. The strength of South African writer Coetzee (Age of Iron, LJ 8/90) lies in his ability to draw characters and scenes evoking the dark mood of the master's novels. Unfortunately, this story of action and ideas lapses into monotonous debate in its final chapters, but there is much to enjoy despite the flagging plot. Recommended for literary collections.
Paul E. Hutchison, Bellefonte, Pa.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 My first Coetzee book, and I loved it, Avril 23 2002
Par Clinton Hale (Bellville, TX) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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I must say that the present tense of the book was shocking for me. It seemed to drive me relentlessly onto the next page and then the next....
While certainly, some of the facts aren't truly historical or necessarily accurate, that doesn't really affect the nature of the story. This book isn't concerned with being totally accurate in the details. It is the voyage that Dostoevsky makes internally from his initial knowledge of his step-sons death to his ability to release all the emotions, pain, fears etc associated with it.
This is about Dostoevsky (and maybe authors in general). It isnt about "the facts."
Anyway, I thought it was great. I look forward to reading more...
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Well-worth your time., Sep 18 2000
Par Katherine Neis (Harrisburg, Pa United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
A father travels to Petersburg upon learning of the death of his beloved stepson, Pavel. There he resides in his son's apartment for what he intends to be a time of remembrance and vigilance. Yet, before he can even begin this time of healing, he is spun into a web of unknowns and deception. The police, who are keeping some of Pavel's personal papers, say that he killed himself while the social group to which he belonged believe he was murdered. Add to all this confusion a landlady whom the father finds himself totally taken by and you have The Master of Petersburg. Coetzee's writing is, as usual, superior. He has the ability to draw in the reader and then keep him there wanting to better understand the feelings of the protagonist and the forces that surround him. I think Coetzee is one of the best-kept secrets in the entire literary world. Although he may have won many a prize, the typical reader is not familiar with his name or his works.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 the gray area between fact and fiction, Jui 12 2000
Par Scott Lefaive (Charlotte, North Carolina USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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The novel imagines Dostoevsky's life between the the publication of Crime and Punishment and before he began writing The Brothers Karamazov. It is a meditation on pain, loss, and love, as Dostoevsky's stepson, Pavel, has died. He tries obsessively to reclaim some of this boy's past by renting the room he once lived in and conversing with the people who knew Pavel to ascertain whether he committed suicide or was a victim of murder. Coetzee's style in this novel is much like Dostoevsky's. There is a lot of inner monologue and the thoughts and anguish of the characters are always known. It makes you think about the similarities and differences between the characters an author writes about and the life of the author himself. Coetzee seems to say that they are almost impossible to distinguish from each other and I will agree to some extent, although I was distracted somewhat by this extreme portrayal. Overall, a nice glimpse into the life of Dostoevsky (though I found it akward that Coetzee changed the year of Pavel's death) and the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Not the best of Coetzee's novels, but a good read
Dostoevsky and Coetzee readers might find this novel interesting. It seems that Coetzee and Dostoevsky have the same temperaments as writers, that both explore the same crevices... Read more
Publié le Aoû 28 1999

4.0étoiles sur 5 Coetzee's topography of Petersburg is unnecesserily fictiona
If "The Master of Petersburg" is to be translated into Russian, any Peterburg's dweller will frown on "63 Svecnoi street in the Haymarket district". Read more
Publié le Fév 17 1998

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