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.

Product Description: This book consists of essays and reviews that address social, political, and cultural issues which arose in connection with literature broadly conceived in the wake of the First World War, and extending throughout the twentieth century...read more

This third volume of Joseph Frank's biography of Dostoevsky begins with the writer's return to St Petersburg after a ten-year exile. It descibes the intricate process of the novelist's self-definition and the reshaping of his social-political outlook under Alexander.

Product Description: This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote A Raw Youth, Diary of a Writer, and his crowning triumph: The Brothers Karamazov...read more

Product Description: Este volumen, el cuarto de la serie, abarca un periodo, el más productivo de toda la carrera de Dostoievski. En el breve lapso de seis años, de 1865 a 1871, escribió tres de sus más grandes novelas: Crimen y castigo, El idiota y Los demonios y dos de sus mejores novelas cortas: El jugador y El eterno marido...read more

Product Description: This volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, covers the six most remarkably productive years in the novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels--Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Devils--and two of his best novellas, The Gambler and The Eternal Husband...read more

Product Description: The Idea of Spatial Form contains the classic essay that introduced the concept of "spatial form" into literary discussion in 1945, and has since been accepted as one of the cornerstones for a theory of modern literature. It is here reprinted along with two later reconsiderations, one of which answers its major critics, while the second places the theory in relation to Russian Formalism and French Structuralism...read more

Essays probe the culture that spawned the great novels of Dostoevsky and explore the author's influence on world literature

Explanatory notes accompany correspondence by the Russian novelist in which he provides an intimate look at his family, political concerns, and friendships

This third volume in Frank's planned five-volume biography begins with the writer's return from a ten-year Siberian exile and his energetic efforts, supported by the spiritual transformation he had undergone during his imprisonment, to reestablish himself as a writer of the first rank

Examines the work of the noted critic through essays and memoirs, and reprints many of his pieces which discuss particular works of literature and the nature of criticism

Describes Dostoevsky's experiences in a prison camp in Siberia, examines the influence of Russian intellectual life on him, and discusses his early writings

Describes Dostoevsky's experiences in a prison camp in Siberia, examines the influence of Russian intellectual life on him, and discusses his early writings

This first volume of the life and work of Dostoevsky covers his early years, from boyhood to the death of his father, his brief career as a government draughtsman and his involvment with a radical group that let to his exile in Siberia. It also examines some of his earliest writings.