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Incriminating documents: Nechaev and Dostoevsky in J.M. Coetzee's 'The Master of Petersburg.' (Sergei Nechaev, Fyodor Dostoevsky)

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From: Philological Quarterly
Date: 19970922
Author:Scanlan, Margaret

J.M. Coetzee's novel 'The Master of Petersburg' focuses on the unfairness and inconsistencies inherent in historiography. Coetzee reinterprets the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky, emphasizing the incompatibility of historic and fictive discourse. His portrayal of Dostoevsky demonstrates the inability to accurately depict history in literary narrative format.

In violent times, some novelists abandon literature altogether, taking to the streets or barricades; others, of course, bring the streets and barricades into their fiction, exposing suffering and injustice, arguing, pleading, and ...

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