The Peasant Marey

"The Peasant Marey" (Russian: Мужик Марей), 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