First Words (ENG)

Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives. Despite his clever attempts to call his readers' attention to these introductions, they have been neglected as an object of study. That oversight is rectified in First Words, the first systematic study of Dostoevsky's introductions.

Lewis Bagby, Professor Emeritus of Russian, University of Wyoming, is the author of Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky and Russian Byronism and editor of A Hero of Our Times: Critical Articles. He has published widely on Russian Romanticism, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Bakhtin.