Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865

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Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 - Paperback

Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 - Paperback

by Joseph Frank
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by Joseph Frank (Author)

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 Biography

Joseph Frank (1918-2013) was professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford and Princeton. The five volumes of his Dostoevsky biography won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, two James Russell Lowell Prizes, and two Christian Gauss Awards, and have been translated into numerous languages.

Number of Pages: 412
Dimensions: 0.92 x 9.18 x 6.14 IN
Publication Date: November 21, 1988
ISBN9780691014524
Author Joseph Frank
PublisherPrinceton University Press
GenreBiography and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 1988
LanguageENG- English
Pages412
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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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).

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