This is the first paperback edition of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. A Writer's Diary began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on The Brothers Karamazov in order to do so. The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame A Writer's Diary was to combine an astonishing variety of material: short stories; humorous sketches; reports on sensational crimes; historical predictions; portraits of famous people; autobiographical pieces; and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared later in the Diary itself. A range of authorial and narrative voices and stances, and an elaborate scheme of allusions and cross-references, preserve and present Dostoevsky's conception of his work as a literary whole. Volume I begins with an extensive study by Gary Saul Morson, which provides a fascinating context for the work's form and content.

This is the first paperback edition of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. A Writer's Diary began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on The Brothers Karamazov in order to do so. The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame A Writer's Diary was to combine an astonishing variety of material: short stories; humorous sketches; reports on sensational crimes; historical predictions; portraits of famous people; autobiographical pieces; and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared later in the Diary itself. A range of authorial and narrative voices and stances, and an elaborate scheme of allusions and cross-references, preserve and present Dostoevsky's conception of his work as a literary whole. Volume 2 contains a comprehensive index to both volumes.

دفتر یادداشت‌های روزانه یک نویسنده را شامل یادداشت‌هایی از داستایوفسکی با موضوعات مختلف سیاسی، اجتماعی، فرهنگی و شخصی دانست و گفت: داستایوفسکی در نوشته‌هایش مسایل سیاسی روز، ماجراهای تبعیدش به سیبری، حوادث روزمره و کتاب‌هایی را که مشغول نگارش آن‌ها بود، ثبت کرده است. این مجموعه با همین ترجمه در سال‌های گذشته از سوی ناشر دیگری منتشر شده بود. صالح رامسری درباره چاپ نخست این کتاب از سوی نشر معین و تغییرات اعمال شده بر متن کتاب چنین توضیح داد : 25 سال پیش ناشری به نام «بزرگمهر» این کتاب را منتشر کرده بود اما این ناشر اکنون فعالیت نمی‌کند. این اثر را در گذشته به وزارت ارشاد فرستادیم که به تازگی به چاپ رسیده است