{"product_id":"2940015022278","title":"Dostoevsky by Zweig","description":"This is the third essay of Stefan Zweig's Three Masters: Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky, written in the early 20th century. Part biography, part literary criticism, part cultural history, the essay offers a window onto how a Central European regarded the Russian master, who died in 1881, the year Zweig was born.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDostoevsky's genius, in Zweig's view, owed a debt to his illness, as Tolstoy's did to his radiant health. Illness \"enabled Dostoevsky to soar upward into a sphere of such concentrated feeling as is rarely experienced by normal men; it permitted him to penetrate into the underworld of the emotions, into the submerged regions of the psyche.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis essay is one of the best examples of Zweig's psychologically-informed literary criticism.","brand":"Plunkett Lake Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162662879472,"sku":"2940015022278","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015022278_p0.jpg?v=1763618897","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015022278","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}