Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank

Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank

Volume two of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time Joseph Frank’s award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the Russian novelist in any language and one of the greatest literary biographies ever written. In this monumental work, Frank blends biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism to illuminate Dostoevsky’s works and set them in their personal, historical, and ideological context. More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work. This volume opens with the detention of the bookish young writer for membership in the radical Petrashevsky Circle and closes with his return to the capital ten years later as an ex-convict and former soldier who now proclaims himself an ardent supporter of the czar and the Russian imperial dynasty.

"[A]nother impressive installment in one of modern scholarship's largest biographical achievements" * Kirkus Reviews *
"In its scale and scholarly care, Frank's study, even at this preliminary stage, has no rival throughout the extensive critical and biographical literature on Dostoevsky."---George Steiner, New Yorker

Joseph Frank (1918–2013) was professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford and Princeton. The five volumes of his Dostoevsky biography won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, two James Russell Lowell Prizes, and two Christian Gauss Awards, and have been translated into numerous languages.

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ISBN 13	9780691065762
ISBN 10	0691065764
Title	Dostoevsky
Author	Joseph Frank
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Year published	1984-01-21
Number of pages	344
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