 The Peasant Marey

The Peasant Marey ( "Muzhik Marey"), written in 1876, is both the "best-known autobiographical account" from the "Writer's Diary" of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and frequently anthologized as a work of fiction.This "double encoding" arises from its often self-contradictory framing as both short story, narrated by the fictional prisoner Goryanchikov, and evident reminiscences by Dostoyevsky himself, as a way to evade censorship.