The Master of Petersburg : A Novel
Professor of General Literature J M Coetzee
Penguin Books
9780140238105
0-14-023810-7
J.M. Coetzee's latest novel,The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking.Late Essays: 2006-2016will be available January 2018.In the fall of 1869 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, lately a resident.
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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 ghostand becomes enmeshed in the same demonic conspiracies that claimed the boyDostoevsky emerges as a figure of unfathomable contradictions: naive and calculating, compassionate and cruel, pious and unspeakably perverse.
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