Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859

Joseph Frank

Published by Princeton University Press 1984

Dostoevsky

The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859

Joseph Frank

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691209388

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Volume two of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time

Joseph Frank’s award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the Russian novelist in any language and one of the greatest literary biographies ever written. In this monumental work, Frank blends biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism to illuminate Dostoevsky’s works and set them in their personal, historical, and 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.

This volume opens with the detention of the bookish young writer for membership in the radical Petrashevsky Circle and closes with his return to the capital ten years later as an ex-convict and former soldier who now proclaims himself an ardent supporter of the czar and the Russian imperial dynasty.

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Joseph Frank (1918–2013) was professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford and Princeton. The five volumes of his Dostoevsky biography won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, two James Russell Lowell Prizes, and two Christian Gauss Awards, and have been translated into numerous languages.

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"In its scale and scholarly care, Frank's study, even at this preliminary stage, has no rival throughout the extensive critical and biographical literature on Dostoevsky."---George Steiner, New Yorker

"Another impressive installment in one of modern scholarship's largest biographical achievements."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Transliteration Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
PART I. The Peter-and-Paul Fortress
CHAPTER 1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER 2. The Petrashevsky Affair Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
CHAPTER 3. ''A Wealth of Life'' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
CHAPTER 4. ''Clever, Independent, Cunning, Stubborn'' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
CHAPTER 5. The Incident in Semenovsky Square Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
PART II. Katorga
CHAPTER 6. First Impressions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
CHAPTER 7. A World of Moral Horror Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
CHAPTER 8. A Russian Patriot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
CHAPTER 9. The Peasant Marey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
CHAPTER 10. A New Vision Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
CHAPTER 11. ''Monsters in Their Misery'' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
PART III. First Love
CHAPTER 12. A Thirst for Knowledge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
CHAPTER 13. Private Dostoevsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
CHAPTER 14. An Influential Friend Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
CHAPTER 15. "A Knight in Female Clothing' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
PART IV. A Second Start
CHAPTER 16. A Russian Heart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
CHAPTER 17. ''Weak" and "Strong" Types Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
CHAPTER 18. Literary Projects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
CHAPTER 19. The Siberian Novellas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Chapter 20. Homecoming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315