Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been...
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Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time illuminates the writer's works--from his first novel Poor Folk to Crim
Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been...
mehr
Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time illuminates the writer's works--from his first novel Poor Folk to Crim
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface: Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time; Acknowledgments; Transliteration; Abbreviations; PART I: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849; 1 Prelude; 2 The Family; 3 The Religious and Cultural Background; 4 The Academy of Military Engineers; 5 The Two Romanticisms; 6 The Gogol Period; 7 Poor Folk; 8 Dostoevsky and the Pléiade; 9 Belinsky and Dostoevsky: I; 10 Feuilletons and Experiments; 11 Belinsky and Dostoevsky: II; 12 The Beketov and Petrashevsky Circles; 13 Dostoevsky and Speshnev; PART II: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859; 14 The Peter-and-Paul Fortress
15 Katorga16 "Monsters in Their Misery"; 17 Private Dostoevsky; 18 A Russian Heart; 19 The Siberian Novellas; 20 Homecoming; PART III: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865; 21 Into the Fray; 22 An Aesthetics of Transcendence; 23 The Insulted and Injured; 24 The Era of Proclamations; 25 Portrait of a Nihilist; 26 Time: The Final Months; 27 Winter Notes on Summer Impressions; 28 An Emancipated Woman, A Tormented Lover; 29 The Prison of Utopia; 30 Notes from Underground; 31 The end of Epoch; PART IV: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871; 32 Khlestakov in Wiesbaden; 33 From Novella to Novel
34 Crime and Punishment35 "A Little Diamond"; 36 The Gambler; 37 Escape and Exile; 38 In Search of a Novel; 39 An Inconsolable Father; 40 The Idiot; 41 The Pamphlet and the Poem; 42 Fathers, Sons, and Stavrogin; 43 Exile's Return; 44 History and Myth in Demons; 45 The Book of the Impostors; PART V: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881; 46 The Citizen; 47 Narodnichestvo: Russian Populism; 48 Bad Ems; 49 A Raw Youth; 50 A Public Figure; 51 The Diary of a Writer, 1876-1877; 52 A New Novel; 53 The Great Debate; 54 Rebellion and the Grand Inquisitor; 55 Terror and Martial Law
56 The Pushkin Festival57 Controversies and Conclusions; 58 The Brothers Karamazov: Books 1-4; 59 The Brothers Karamazov: Books 5-6; 60 The Brothers Karamazov: Books 7-12; 61 Death and Transfiguration; Editor's Note; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;
