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This book reveals an intimate connection between the great pyramid and the book ofthe dead the secret house and the secret scroll and throws light on the deepest secrets of ancient egypt. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 384 pages and is available in paperback format. The antagonist in the book, who shares many conversations with dostoyevsky, is sergey. One wonders if coetzees main purpose here in writing about dostoevsky was to establish a necessary distance, a camouflage, allowing him to deal with material too hot to hold, material that needs this middle distance in order to be rendered on the pagethat is, the death of his own son in 1989, a few years before the master of petersburg. The master of petersburg 1994 edition open library.
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