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Dostoevsky
A Writer in His Time
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Ideal for readers interested in literary biography, Russian literature, and 19th-century cultural history. Scholars, students, and devoted fans of Dostoevsky will find this a richly rewarding and insightful read.
Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, this title illuminates the author's works from his first novel "Poor Folk" to "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov" by setting them in their personal, historical, and ideological context.
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Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognised 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 skilfully 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 Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov—by setting them in their personal, historical, and above all, 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.
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Praised as a "monumental achievement" and an "exhaustive history of Dostoevsky's mind," this biography has been acclaimed for its depth and nuance. Critics highlight its detailed exploration of the author's life and thought, describing it as the fullest and most informative account available. It is celebrated for significantly enhancing understanding of Dostoevsky and his work, with notable praise from the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, and esteemed figures like J. M. Coetzee.
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ISBN: 9780691155999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 August 2012
Country: United States
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Edition: Revised edition
Illustration: 31 halftones.
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 1389g
Pages: 984
About the Author
Joseph Frank is professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford and Princeton. The five volumes of his Dostoevsky biography, published between 1976 and 2002, won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a "Los Angeles Times" book prize, two James Russell Lowell Prizes, two Christian Gauss Awards, and other honors. In 2008, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies awarded Frank its highest honor.
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