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Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865
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From Library Journal
This is the third in a projected five-volume literary biography of Dostoevsky. The first two volumes ( LJ 9/1/76; 11/15/83) have been widely acclaimed; the present volume, which covers Dostoevsky's return to Petersburg and the resumption of his literary activities following his exile in Siberia, is no less an achievement. It is to Frank's credit that he has analyzed so carefully these formative years, usually neglected by scholars, and produced this gracefully written volume of intellectual history. It is a work of vast erudition and of absorbing interest that can hardly be recommended too highly. Essential for all major collections. Joyce S. Toomre, Russian Research Ctr., Harvard Univ.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
. . . a narrative of such compelling precision, thoroughness and insight as to give the reader a sense not just of acquaintanceship, but of complete identification with Dostoevsky, of looking through his eyes and understanding with his mind. -- Helen Muchnic, Boston Globe
This is unquestionably the best account we have of Dostoevsky in his time. -- Donald Fanger, The New Republic
. . . will rightly be considered one of the finest achievements of American literary scholarship. -- René Wellek, Washington Post
--This text refers to the
edition.
17/02/2011
, with Eyes Wide Open and Clear Understanding!
These are some of the best books I have ever read!
04/01/2007
Maybe sound to free speculation, but to my view, Dostoevsky is spiritually the embodiment of the rebel man. Moreover, he may be regarded the authentic godfather of the existentialism in Literature. There are many arguments to support it, the conceptual, the spiritual affinities, the silence of God, the silent anguish and the clawing scream of desperation before the emptiness of the existence, so magisterially expressed in Karamazov brothers.
On the other hand, at the moment to read that notable essay of Albert Camus: "The rebel man" and the close affinity between "The happy death" and "Crime and punishment" you even may spin finer and so to establish certain parallelisms with the most radical branches of the Romanticism.
Between Dostoevsky and Camus, there are important links: Rimbaud Verlaine and Baudelaire pick up and establish important premises for the reluctant existentialism that remains latent to make its incursion with that impressive outburst after the WW1.
Joseph Franks leads the reader for admirable paths of passionate interest in order to convey us the core of the oul of this writer of writers.
Absolutely recommended.
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