![]() ![]() His never-before-published Stanford lectures on the Russian novelist's major works provide an unparalleled and accessible introduction to some of literature's greatest masterpieces. ![]() 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. Joseph Frank (19182013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer, scholar, and critic of his time. 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. Joseph Frank was professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford and Princeton. Now Frank's monumental, 2,500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. by David Foster Wallace Originally published ApRCB VV collage The citizen secures himself against genius by icon worship. ![]() ![]() A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time 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. Dostoevsky wasnt just a geniusĀ he was, finally, brave. ![]()
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