Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691014524)

Volume three 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 begins with the writer's return to Saint Petersburg after a ten-year Siberian exile and traces how his engagement in the cultural and social ferment of Russia in the early 1860s led to his discovery of the themes that would underlie his mature masterpieces.

Author: Joseph Frank
ISBN-10: 0691014523
ISBN-13: 9780691014524
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/21/1988
Pages: 412
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.14w x 0.92d