Dostoevsky : A Writer in His Time

English

ISBN: 0691128197

EAN: 9780691128191

Category: Fiction / Literary/Literary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union/

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Release Date: 09/30/2009

Synopsis: Joseph Franks award-winning, five-volumeDostoevskyis 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 Franks 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 works acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism,Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Timeilluminates the writers works--from his first novelPoor FolktoCrime and PunishmentandThe 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.

Dostoevsky : A Writer in His Time

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 2.7 inches

Width: 6.85 inches

Length: 9.33 inches

Weight: 58.7 oz

Pages: 984