Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time

di Joseph Frank (Autore)

Princeton University Press, 2012

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.

• Autore: Joseph Frank
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Anno: 2012
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 984 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 152 mm
• Peso: 1389 gr.
• EAN: 9780691155999

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