Dostoevsky: the years of ordeal 1850-1859
by Joseph Frank
Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky Biography (vol. 2)
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This present volume is the second in a series dealing with the life and works of Dostoevsky ... during the ten years [he] spent first in solitary confinement, then in a prison camp in Siberia, and finally as a soldier in one of the Siberian regiments of the Russian army. --Preface.Tags
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Why he wrote about murderers for the rest of his life. A faith in humanity lost and found among examples of them. Would he have been a great writer without Siberia? It's hard to say yes. He came out stronger in every way. Shorn of an old idealism, because that was ignorant, and now he has knowledge, and no less belief. He himself says he is unchanged in principles. The need of the psyche for freedom - ahead of survival instincts or what they call self-interest - he witnesses. Epilepsy strikes, and love that's as disastrous.
Continuation of the massive literary biography that I’m slowly reading. Again, probably only for Dostoevsky obsessives like me, but it’s full of interesting stuff about his life and the literary/cultural background against which it is set. This one covers the years after his arrest for political conspiracy, spent mostly in Siberia and in the army.
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Joseph Frank is the author of an award-winning multivolume biography of Dostoevsky. (Bowker Author Biography) Joseph Frank, was born Joseph Nathaniel Glassman on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on October 6, 1918. He never earned a bachelor's degree, but attended classes at New York University and briefly studied at the University of Wisconsin. show more In 1942, he took an editorial job in Washington at the Bureau of National Affairs, a publisher of informational journals on legislation, policy and like subjects. Throughout the 1940s, he published essays and criticism in literary journals. Spatial Form in Modern Literature, which was a discussion of experimental treatments of space and time by Eliot, Joyce, Proust, Pound and others was published in The Sewanee Review in 1945 and propelled him to prominence as a theoretician. He went to Paris on a Fulbright scholarship in 1950. In 1952, he was accepted by the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where he eventually received a Ph.D. He taught at numerous universities including the University of Minnesota, Rutgers University, Princeton University, and Stanford University. His five-volume life of Fyodor Dostoevsky is frequently cited among the greatest of 20th-century literary biographies. In 2009, he published a one-volume synopsis of the entire opus entitled Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time. He died from pulmonary failure on February 27, 2013 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Dostoevsky: the years of ordeal 1850-1859
- Original title
- Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859
- Original publication date
- 1983
- People/Characters
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Dedication
- Dedicated to the memory of Rufus W Mathewson, Jr. (1918-1978) An inspiring Slavist and a never-to-be-forgotten friend
- Blurbers
- Howe, Irving; Fanger, Donald; Peace R A; Gray, Paul
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- Genres
- Literature Studies and Criticism, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.73 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction
- LCC
- PG3328 .F74 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 1800-1870 Dostoyevsky
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- Languages
- English, Portuguese (Brazil)
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
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- 2
