Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time By Joseph Frank
2010 | 984 Pages | ISBN: 0691128197 , 0691155992 | EPUB + PDF | 3 MB + 7 MB
2010 | 984 Pages | ISBN: 0691128197 , 0691155992 | EPUB + PDF | 3 MB + 7 MB
Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky 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, 2500-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, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time illuminates the writer's works--from his first novel Poor Folk to Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov--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.