"One of the finest achievements of American literary scholarship." -René Wellek, Washington Post Book World A deeply absorbing account of last decade." -James Wood, New Republic t is impossible not to warm to Dostoevsky in Frank's humane, searching, serious account." -Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times "By the early 1870s, when the final volume of Joseph Frank's magisterial biography begins, Dostoevsky was revered as a seer his countrymen hung on his every word about Russia and her spiritual destiny. "Concluding his magisterial literary and intellectual biography of Russia's great, contradictory writer, Frank traces his 11th-hour rise from ex-convict literary proletarian to conciliator between radicals and mainstream society." - Publishers Weekly "In his aim of elucidating the setting within which Dostoevsky wrote-personal on the one hand, social, historical, cultural, literary, and philosophical on the other-Frank has succeeded triumphantly." -J. Frank is clearly on the way toward composing one of the great literary biographies of the age." -Irving Howe, New York Times Book Review "Everything about this ambitious enterprise is splendid-its intellectual seriousness, its command of the Russian setting and sources, its modesty of tone, its warm feeling. work will surely remain the classic study of Dostoevsky the anti-utopian humanist." -Aileen Kelly, New York Review of Books " has created a dramatic unity out of Dostoevsky's chaotic life and art. a multifaceted tribute from an erudite and penetrating cultural critic to one of the great masters of 19th century fiction." -Michael Scammell, The New York Times Book Review Wrought with tireless love and boundless ingenuity, it.
It is, rather, an exhaustive history of Dostoyevsky's mind, an encyclopedic account of the author as major novelist and thinker, essayist and editor, journalist and polemicist. This is not a literary biography in the usual sense of the term. It is unquestionably the fullest, most nuanced and evenhanded-not to mention the most informative-account of its subject in any language, and it has significantly changed our understanding of both the man and his work." -Donald Fanger, Los Angeles Times unrivaled in what it sets out to do and in the remarkable degree to which it succeeds in doing it. One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2002 Co-Winner of the 2006 Etkind Prize, Best Book by a Western Scholar on Russian Literature/Culture, European University at St.
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