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Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691014227)
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xVolume 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.Author: Joseph Frank
ISBN-10: 0691014221
ISBN-13: 9780691014227
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/21/1987
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.15w x 0.93d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner
By Joseph Frank
xJoseph 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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