' Isn't it time we paused to wonder why the 19th century, with its glorification of humanism, freedom, and the rights of man, led straight to the 20th, which has not only
Surpassed all previous ages in its crimes against humanity but has managed, into the bargain, to prepare the means for total destruction of life on earth? '
(NADEZHDA MANDELSTAM)
A contemporary view of Dostoevsky, the writer, the man and the prophet, by Alex de Jonge of New College, Oxford, with contributions from
PROFESSOR ROBERT BELKNAP , ANTHONY BURGESS , ANTONIA BYATT. ,
PROFESSOR DONALD FANGER. , DR RONALD HINGLEY , PROFESSOR MALCOLM JONES , PROFESSOR SIMON KARLINSKY , CZESLAW MILOSZ , PROFESSOR RICHARD PEACE , DR ALEXANDER PYATIGORSKY ,
ANDREY SINYAVSKY
, PROFESSOR GEORGE STEINER , PROFESSOR EDWARD WASIOLEK and COLIN WILSON
Radiophonic music by MALCOLM CLARKE , LES THATCHER (balalaika) . Reader
Alan Dobie Producer
JUDITH BUMPUS