Dostoevsky : a writer in his time / Joseph Frank; edited by Mary Petrusewicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Joseph, 1918-

Contributor:

Petrusewicz, Mary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Novelists, Russian--19th century--Biography.

Novelists, Russian.

Russia--Intellectual life--1801-1917.

Russia.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (984 p.)

Edition:

With a New preface by the author

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface: Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time

Acknowledgments

Transliteration

Abbreviations

Part I. The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849

Chapter 1. Prelude

Chapter 2. The Family

Chapter 3. The Religious and Cultural Background

Chapter 4. The Academy of Military Engineers

Chapter 5. The Two Romanticisms

Chapter 6. The Gogol Period

Chapter 7. Poor Folk

Chapter 8. Dostoevsky and the Pléiade

Chapter 9. Belinsky and Dostoevsky: I

Chapter 10. Feuilletons and Experiments

Chapter 11. Belinsky and Dostoevsky: II

Chapter 12. The Beketov and Petrashevsky Circles

Chapter 13. Dostoevsky and Speshnev

Part II. The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859

Chapter 14. The Peter-and-Paul Fortress

Chapter 15. Katorga

Chapter 16. "Monsters in Their Misery"

Chapter 17. Private Dostoevsky

Chapter 18. A Russian Heart

Chapter 19. The Siberian Novellas

Chapter 20. Homecoming

Part III. The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865

Chapter 21. Into the Fray

Chapter 22. An Aesthetics of Transcendence

Chapter 23. The Insulted and Injured

Chapter 24. The Era of Proclamations

Chapter 25. Portrait of a Nihilist

Chapter 26. Time: The Final Months

Chapter 27. Winter Notes on Summer Impressions

Chapter 28. An Emancipated Woman, A Tormented Lover

Chapter 29. The Prison of Utopia

Chapter 30. Notes from Underground

Chapter 31. The End of Epoch

Part IV. The Miraculous Y ears, 1865-1871

Chapter 32. Khlestakov in Wiesbaden

Chapter 33. From Novella to Novel

Chapter 34. Crime and Punishment

Chapter 35. "A Little Diamond"

Chapter 36. The Gambler

Chapter 37. Escape and Exile

Chapter 38. In Search of a Novel

Chapter 39. An Inconsolable Father

Chapter 40. The Idiot

Chapter 41. The Pamphlet and the Poem

Chapter 42. Fathers, Sons, and Stavrogin

Chapter 43. Exile's Return

Chapter 44. History and Myth in Demons

Chapter 45. The Book of the Impostors

Part V. The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881

Chapter 46. The Citizen

Chapter 47. Narodnichestvo: Russian Populism

Chapter 48. Bad Ems

Chapter 49. A Raw Youth

Chapter 50. A Public Figure

Chapter 51. The Diary of a Writer, 1876-1877

Chapter 52. A New Novel

Chapter 53. The Great Debate

Chapter 54. Rebellion and the Grand Inquisitor

Chapter 55. Terror and Martial Law

Chapter 56. The Pushkin Festival

Chapter 57. Controversies and Conclusions

Chapter 58. The Brothers Karamazov: Books 1-4

Chapter 59. The Brothers Karamazov: Books 5-6

Chapter 60. The Brothers Karamazov: Books 7-12

Chapter 61. Death and Transfiguration

Editor's Note

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Abridged ed. of author's work in 5 v.: Dostoevsky. c1976-2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612936036

9786612458125

9781400833412

1400833418

9781282936034

1282936034

9781282458123

1282458124

9780691128191

0691128197

OCLC:

647875324