The Master of Petersburg
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Jul 2025 on Ologies with Alie Ward.
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Ally Louks💬 Mentioned
…exploring how grief is conveyed through smell in literature
“The text that automatically comes to mind is a novel by J.M. Coetzee, who is the author of Disgrace, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. But one of his lesser known novels is called The Master of Petersburg. And it's a kind of fictionalized account of Dostoyevsky's life. And at the beginning of the novel, we see this fictionalized Dostoyevsky enter the room of his recently deceased son. And he kind of picks up various things in the room to smell them.”
Ologies with Alie Ward — Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louksat 32:09
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