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Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time (With a New Preface by the Auth)
Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time (With a New Preface by the Auth) | Joseph Frank
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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.
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#RussianLit #Volume3 #TheStirofLiberation(1860-1865)

"...the pages of the present volume deal with an extremely important period in Dostoevsky's life that has been more or less scanned...in the early 1860s, as the editor of two important journals, (he) stood much more directly at the center of Russian social-cultural life than during the remainder of the decade... during these years...his social-political Outlook was definitely reshaped"(xi).

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#RussianLit #Volume1 #TheSeedsOfRevolt (1821-1849)

"Of all the great Russian writers of the first part of the 19th Century... Dostoyevsky was the only one who did not come from a family belonging to the landed gentry. This is a fact of great importance, and influenced the view he took of his own position as a writer "(6 ).

Erofan One of Dostoevsky's quotes is "Stop reading books means stop thinking." It's true! Great writer! 5y
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