Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849, Volumen 10

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Princeton University Press, 21 may 1979 - 401 páginas

The term "biography" seems insufficiently capacious to describe the singular achievement of Joseph Frank's five-volume study of the life of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. One critic, writing upon the publication of the final volume, casually tagged the series as the ultimate work on Dostoevsky "in any language, and quite possibly forever."

Frank himself had not originally intended to undertake such a massive work. The endeavor began in the early 1960s as an exploration of Dostoevsky's fiction, but it later became apparent to Frank that a deeper appreciation of the fiction would require a more ambitious engagement with the writer's life, directly caught up as Dostoevsky was with the cultural and political movements of mid- and late-nineteenth-century Russia. Already in his forties, Frank undertook to learn Russian and embarked on what would become a five-volume work comprising more than 2,500 pages. The result is an intellectual history of nineteenth-century Russia, with Dostoevsky's mind as a refracting prism.

The volumes have won numerous prizes, among them the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association.

 

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The Family
6
Childhood Boyhood Youth
23
The Religious Background
42
The Cultural Background
54
The Academy of Engineers
69
A Marvellous Exalted Being
92
The Two Romanticisms ΙΟΙ
101
The Gogol Period I
113
The Beketov Circle
199
The Petersburg Feuilletons
217
The Petrashevsky Circle
239
Dostoevsky and Speshnev
258
The PalmDurov Circle
273
The Double
295
Petersburg Grotesques
313
Reality and the Dreamer
332

The Gogol Period II
127
Poor Folk
137
Belinsky and His Pléiade
159
Belinsky and Dostoevsky I
172
Belinsky and Dostoevsky II
182
Netotchka Nezvanova
348
Envoi
365
Freuds CaseHistory of Dostoevsky
379
Index
393
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Joseph Frank is the author of an award-winning multivolume biography of Dostoevsky.

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