Autumn in St. Petersburg. Kutzeee J.M.

John Maxwell Kutzee - South African writer, Nobel Prize winner, and recognized master of psychological prose.

The protagonist of “Autumn in St. Petersburg” is Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, who returns to St. Petersburg in the fall of 1869 to investigate the tragic death of his stepson. The writer is beside himself from grief and can hardly copes with the attacks of epilepsy, and the mistress of the apartment where the deceased lived causes him real obsession. However, Dostoevsky firmly intends to play the truth - whether Paul died with his death? Was he a revolutionary? Did he love his foster father or despised him? To answer these questions, Fedor Mikhailovich will have to resist Sergey Nechaev - the underground revolutionary and the evil genius of St. Petersburg.

The skill of Kutzee and Sergey Ilyin, the author of the Russian translation of the novel, such that reading "Autumn in St. Petersburg", we may well believe that we are before us, an unknown novel "Dostoevsky". Read the masterpiece of world literature in congenial translation!