{"title":"Joseph Frank","description":"Joseph Frank is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature Emeritus at Stanford University. For Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859,  Frank won the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. In addition to the previous volumes of Dostoevsky, he is the author of Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture (Princeton).","products":[{"product_id":"dostoevsky-the-miraculous-years-1865-1871-paperback","title":"Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, covers the six most remarkably productive years in the novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels--\u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment, The Idiot, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Devils\u003c\/i\u003e--and two of his best novellas, \u003ci\u003eThe Gambler\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Eternal Husband\u003c\/i\u003e. All these masterpieces were written in the midst of harrowing practical and economic circumstances, as Dostoevsky moved from place to place, frequently giving way to his passion for roulette. Having remarried and fled from Russia to escape importuning creditors and grasping dependents, he could not return for fear of being thrown into debtor's prison. He and his young bride, who twice made him a father, lived obscurely and penuriously in Switzerland, Germany, and Italy, as he toiled away at his writing, their only source of income. All the while, he worried that his recurrent epileptic attacks were impairing his literary capacities. His enforced exile intensified not only his love for his native land but also his abhorrence of the doctrines of Russian Nihilism--which he saw as an alien European importation infecting the Russian psyche. Two novels of this period were thus an attempt to conjure this looming spectre of moral-social disintegration, while \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e offered an image of Dostoevsky's conception of the Russian Christian ideal that he hoped would take its place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366086508767,"sku":"9780691015873","price":60.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/tKebssPL329780691015873.webp?v=1789080850"},{"product_id":"dostoevsky-a-writer-in-his-time-paperback","title":"Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume \u003ci\u003eDostoevsky\u003c\/i\u003e is widely recognized 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, 2,500-page work has been skillfully 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, \u003ci\u003eDostoevsky: A Writer in His Time\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the writer's works--from his first novel \u003ci\u003ePoor Folk\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Although the pace has quickened, the serene and magnificent persistence that Joseph Frank brought to his five volumes resonates fully in this distilled story. If (as Frank tells us) Dostoevsky 'felt ideas, ' then Frank 'feels biography' at any scale, with a perfect sense of proportion.\"\u003cb\u003e--Caryl Emerson, Princeton University, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[This book] ensures Frank's status as the definitive literary biographer of one of the best fiction writers ever.\"\u003cb\u003e--David Foster Wallace\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The editing and deep thought that have gone into this magnificent one-volume condensation of Frank's magnum opus are to be greatly admired. This is the best biography of Dostoevsky, the best reading of some of the major novels, the best cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia. Just the best.\"\u003cb\u003e--Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University, author of \u003ci\u003eDostoevsky's Unfinished Journey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375590506719,"sku":"9780691155999","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/kfyqwqXWe9780691155999.webp?v=1789203805"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/joseph-frank.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}