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Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859

Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859

Frank, Joseph

Paperback

Series: Dostoevsky / Joseph Frank; [2]

Biographies GeneralLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0691014221
ISBN13: 9780691014227
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Jan 21 1987
Pages: 337
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.15 Depth: 9.27
Language: English
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award

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.

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