Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865, Volumen 3

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Princeton University Press, 1986 - 395 páginas

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.

 

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Exiles Return
8
A Bit of Liberty A Bit of Freedom
22
A New Movement Pochvennichestvo
34
Into the Fray
48
Petersburg Visions
64
An Aesthetics of Transcendence
76
Polemical Skirmishes
94
The Insulted and Injured
110
House of the Dead
213
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
233
An Emancipated Woman
251
A Tormented Lover
268
Epoch
283
Will I Ever See Masha Again?
296
Notes from Underground
310
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323

The First Leaflets
133
Young Russia
145
Portrait of a Nihilist
160
The Land of Holy Wonders
179
Time The Final Months
197
The End of Epoch
348
The Vitality of a Cat
367
Index
389
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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.

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