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Dostoyevsky: A Writer in His Time

Joseph Frank

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Dostoyevsky: A Writer in His Time

Joseph Frank's five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language. Now Frank's monumental 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.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2009
ISBN-13
9781400833412
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Fyodor Dostoevsky's life19th-century Russian literature and historyLiterary criticism and intellectual history

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