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Volume two of one of the greatest literary biographies of our timeJoseph 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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- Author
- Joseph Frank
- Publisher
- Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1984
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691013558
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.45 / 5 (127 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Dostoievski. Los años de prueba, 1850-1859 (Seccion de Obras de Lengua y Estudios Literarios) (1986)
- Dostoevsky : A Writer in His Time (2010)
- Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (DOSTOEVSKY (FRANK, JOSEPH)) (1986)
- Dostoevsky : The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (1986)
- Dostoevsky : The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 (1976)
- Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time (abridged single-volume-edition, 2009) (2009)
- Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 5 (2020)
- Dostoevsky : The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 (1987)
- Dostoievski : la secuela de la liberación, 1860-1865 (Lengua y Estudios Literarios) (1986)
- Dostoevsky - Vol. 2) The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 (1983) (1983)
- Dostoevsky - Vol. 1) The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 (1976. e2020) (2020)
- Dostoevsky - Vol. 3) The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (1986. e2020) (2020)
- Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 (Dostoevsky (1987)
- Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 4 (2020)
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