Coetzee, New York Review of Books 'Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time thus immediately becomes the essential one-volume commentary on the intellectual dynamics and artistry of this great novelist's impassioned, idea-driven fiction. Personal on the one hand, social, historical, cultural, literary, and philosophical on the other

Michael Scammell, New York Times Book Review 'It is unquestionably the fullest, most nuanced and evenhandedĪccount of its subject in any language, and it has significantly changed our understanding of both the man and his work.'ĭonald Fanger, Los Angeles Times Book Review 'In his aim of elucidating the setting within which Dostoevsky wrote a multifaceted tribute from an erudite and penetrating cultural critic to one of the great masters of 19th-century fiction.' Wrought with tireless love and boundless ingenuity, it. It is, rather, an exhaustive history of Dostoyevsky's mind, an encyclopedic account of the author as major novelist and thinker, essayist and editor, journalist and polemicist. This is not a literary biography in the usual sense of the term. Show Less Product DetailsĬo-Winner of the Etkind Prize, European University at St. 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.

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. 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. 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. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, this title illuminates the author's works from his first novel 'Poor Folk' to 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Brothers Karamazov' by setting them in their personal, historical, and ideological context. Description for Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time Paperback.

Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank