Joseph Frank

Dostoevsky (eBook, ePUB)

A Writer in His Time

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 984
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781400833412
• Artikelnr.: 37864203

Autorenporträt

Joseph Frank With a new preface by the author Edited by Mary Petrusewicz

Rezensionen

In its scale and scholarly care, Frank's study, even at this preliminary stage, has no rival throughout the extensive critical and biographical literature on Dostoevsky.