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#RussianLit #Volume2 #1877 - #1881

"Errors of the heart are something terribly significant: they represent the contaminated spirit, sometimes even of the nation as a whole, that very often bears with it a degree of blindness that cannot be cured by facts of any kind, no matter how clearly they might indicate the proper path to take"(811).

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A Writer's Diary | Fyodor Dostoevsky
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#RussianLit #Diary
#Volume1 #1873 - #1876
#Volume2 #1877 - #1881
Introductory study by #GarySaulMorson
Translated & Annotated by #KennethLantz

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"...Diary began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on The Brothers Karamozov in order to do so"

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