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Original Title:	The Master of Petersburg
ISBN:	0140238107 (ISBN13: 9780140238105)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Irish Times International Fiction Prize (1995), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Africa (1995)

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In the fall of 1869 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, lately a resident of Germany, is summoned back to St. Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, Pavel. Half crazed with grief, stricken by epileptic seizures, and erotically obsessed with his stepson's landlady, Dostoevsky is nevertheless intent on unraveling the enigma of Pavel's life. Was the boy a suicide or a murder victim? Did he love his stepfather or despise him? Was he a disciple of the revolutionary Nechaev, who even now is somewhere in St. Petersburg pursuing a dream of apocalyptic violence? As he follows his stepson's ghost—and becomes enmeshed in the same demonic conspiracies that claimed the boy—Dostoevsky emerges as a figure of unfathomable contradictions: naive and calculating, compassionate and cruel, pious and unspeakably perverse.

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Title	:	The Master of Petersburg
Author	:	J.M. Coetzee
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	November 1st 1995 by Penguin Books (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Literature

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Crime and Creativity?This book is a radical reflection about how Fyodor Dostoevsky's pursuing of his darkest sides goes hand in hand with the creation of literature. If one of Rodion Raskolnikov's fever dreams was about his creator, it mighr have been this one. Only when God is silent does God speak.

I loved reading this book. It is not only about Dostoevsky, but is also written in Dostoevsky's style. It's dark and fast. It's about death, punishment and inner battle.The character Dostoevsky has some of the attributes of his own characters Svidrigailov, Stavroghin, Raskolnikov, with the distinction of a man fighting with his age and not having his nobility and superiority of the "master" as we expected. He looses his strength and ability to see things clearly and the only way to show his

Coetzee doing a remarkable Dostoevsky in character, style, and theme.

Imaginary MemoirsThe first person narrator of "The Master of Petersburg" is Coetzee's imagining of Fyodor Dostoyevsky as he might have been in October, 1869, immediately before he started writing his third novel, "Demons".The Master is living in Dresden, when he is summoned back to St. Petersburg after the sudden death of his stepson, Pavel Isaev, on 12 October.He soon begins to inhabit Pavel's lodgings, haunts and psyche in an attempt to comprehend their shared life and fate and to solve the

J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003, is not everyone's cup of tea. 'The Master of Petersburg', first published in 1994, is no exception. Following the death of Dostoevsky's stepson Pavel, Coetzee manages to construct a novel with such towering themes as the father-son relationship, the quest for the truth, death, and the very art of writing itself. However, for all its complexity, most reviewers of 'The Master of Petersburg' here on Goodreads have found Coetzee's

This is a well plotted literary thriller. Lots of dramatic situations unfolding simultaneously: a murder mystery (of course), an extra-marital affair (of course), the death of a child (of course), a disease (of course), and child molestation (can't leave that out). I really had higher hopes for J.M. Coetzee though. He had been recommended to my by people whom I respect and he won the Nobel Prize and everything etc... Unfortunately I found, despite its considerable strengths--eg it was engaging.

Dostoevsky, in this novel, returns to St. Petersburg from his home in Dresdan to try to pursue the spirit of his stepson, who has died in mysterious circumstances. In telling this story, Coetzee brilliantly creates the paranoid atmosphere of 19th century Russia, the same Russia reflected in Dostoevsky's novels. Coetzee also takes up the old Russian theme of fathers and sons, as Dostoevsky learns that his stepson has a perception of the past and the development of their relationship quite