by J.M. Coetzee · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439707257
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«El maestro de Petersburgo» is the historical novel by J.M. Coetzee, published by Mondadori in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
An exiled Russian novelist returns to St. Petersburg to investigate the circumstances of the death of his stepson, Pavel. Obsessed by memories, he becomes caught up in the revolutionary violence of 1869. Coetzee recreates the figure of Fyodor Dostoevsky in a fiction that combines the mystery tale with psychological portraiture.
The work was originally published in 1994 under the title «The Master of Petersburg»; this Spanish edition is from 2001 and belongs to the Mitos Bolsillo collection.
For readers of literary fiction interested in nineteenth-century Russia and the figure of Dostoevsky.
John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
