2008 Reports

Dostoevsky's Doodles

Fyodor Dostoevsky created his fiction step by step as he lived, read, remembered, reprocessed, and wrote. For much of his life, he would plan his novels and then the chapters throughout the night, sleep in the morning, and dictate them in the afternoon to his wife, Anna Grigoryevna, whom he had first met as a stenographer.