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Dostoevsky
By Joseph Frank
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Description
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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
418
Release Date:
1979-05-01
Publication Date:
1979-05-21
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0691013551
ISBN13:
9780691013558
Weight:
708 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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