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Description for Dostoevsky
Paperback. A study of the life of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. It presents the history of nineteenth-century Russia, with Dostoevsky's mind as a refracting prism. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 257 x 192 x 25. Weight in Grams: 592.
The term "biography" seems insufficiently capacious to describe the singular achievement of Joseph Frank's five-volume study of the life of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. One critic, writing upon the publication of the final volume, casually tagged the series as the ultimate work on Dostoevsky "in any language, and quite possibly forever." 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 ... Read more
The term "biography" seems insufficiently capacious to describe the singular achievement of Joseph Frank's five-volume study of the life of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. One critic, writing upon the publication of the final volume, casually tagged the series as the ultimate work on Dostoevsky "in any language, and quite possibly forever." 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
The University Press Group Ltd United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691013558
SKU
V9780691013558
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Reviews for Dostoevsky
"Clearly, a work in the masterpiece class."
Hilton Kramer, New York Times Book Review
Hilton Kramer, New York Times Book Review