What Dostoevsky and Turgenev promised each other
a literary correspondence between two great writers, 1864-1865
The relationships between great writers are always interesting to explore, for from them we don’t just learn more about their personalities but about the struggles they went through in their personal life, and, frankly, we just like gossip. I don’t enjoy reading biographies as much as I enjoy reading letters because they are written in an author’s voice and have personal quirks you wouldn’t encounter elsewhere. Although it’s easy to find letters online, it’s often hard to piece them together—you have to look for both sides of correspondence in separate places, often in different format, and tack the chronology and dates yourself. Sometimes it becomes a puzzle that reveals a real and quite ordinary human drama behind the extraordinary literary giants.
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