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  • ISBN: 0691015872
  • Category: Biographies
  • Author: Joseph Frank
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press; Reprint edition (December 9, 1996)
  • Pages: 540 pages
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Joseph Frank is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of. .For Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859, Frank won the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.

For Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859, Frank won the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. In addition to the previous volumes of Dostoevsky, he is the author of Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture (Princeton).

This book discusses three major works of Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Devils (also published as Demons and The Possessed) along with some less known works such as The Eternal Husband. You can read this volume with or without reading the works referenced in it. If you have already read the works discussed in the book you will find it easy to grasp the depth of analysis on different characters and may find yourself going back to reading the work again with new perspectives on the characters.

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This volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, covers the six most remarkably productive years in the novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels-Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Devils-and two of his best novellas, The Gambler and The Eternal Husband.

Автор: FRANK, JOSEPH Название: DOSTOEVSKY: THE MIRACULOUS YEARS, 1865-1871 Издательство: Wiley . This is a biography of Dostoevsky that covers the six productive years in the novelist& entire career.

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This volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, covers the six most remarkably productive years in the novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels--Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Devils--and two of his best novellas, The Gambler and The Eternal Husband. All these masterpieces were written in the midst of harrowing practical and economic circumstances, as Dostoevsky moved from place to place, frequently giving way to his passion for roulette. Having remarried and fled from Russia to escape importuning creditors and grasping dependents, he could not return for fear of being thrown into debtor's prison. He and his young bride, who twice made him a father, lived obscurely and penuriously in Switzerland, Germany, and Italy, as he toiled away at his writing, their only source of income. All the while, he worried that his recurrent epileptic attacks were impairing his literary capacities. His enforced exile intensified not only his love for his native land but also his abhorrence of the doctrines of Russian Nihilism--which he saw as an alien European importation infecting the Russian psyche. Two novels of this period were thus an attempt to conjure this looming spectre of moral-social disintegration, while The Idiot offered an image of Dostoevsky's conception of the Russian Christian ideal that he hoped would take its place.


Reviews about Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 (5):
Risky Strong Dromedary
For two reasons, this book may leave you with an urge to re-read the first three volumes; one because it contains sections that in another context have also been addressed in the other volumes and two because it presents a complicated social and political narrative in reference to Dostoevsky's works, which may be difficult to grasp by itself, all the more so, if you don't have a clear understanding of ideologies of people referenced in the narrative and discussed in prior volumes.
This book discusses three major works of Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Devils (also published as Demons and The Possessed) along with some less known works such as The Eternal Husband. You can read this volume with or without reading the works referenced in it. If you have already read the works discussed in the book you will find it easy to grasp the depth of analysis on different characters and may find yourself going back to reading the work again with new perspectives on the characters. On the flip side, if you haven't read the book but are getting introduced to it by this book, you may be able to appreciate the historical context of the work before you spend time reading it, although it may be difficult to keep up with the description of characters in a context of a novel that you haven't yet read. Nevertheless, this book will spur the desire to read these works and get familiar with the context. It may just happen that after you finish reading Dostoevsky's novels, you are again nudged into picking up this volume to get a deeper understanding of the work and before you know you could be in a recursive loop of reading Dostoevsky and Joseph Frank!
Yozshujinn
...and with the fourth volume come the miracles. In the space of six years, Dostoevsky wrote "Crime and Punishment," "The Idiot," and "Demons" --- all of them masterpieces.

"Crime & Punishment" took Russia by storm; it was said that nobody read anything else in the year 1866. It was also said that reading it was so hypnotizing that it was actually dangerous. Myself, I haven't read this novel since I was in my 20's, but I'm quite sure that a re-reading is coming right up. I remember well that "The Idiot" was just as maddeningly hypnotic. But I haven't yet read "Demons" AKA "The Possessed."

To think that one man wrote all of this in six years is simply mind-boggling, not to mention his novellas "The Gambler" and "The Constant Husband." Plagued by poverty and epileptic fits, the story of these six years is just fascinating, and once again shows that Joseph Frank was absolutely right when he cast everything else aside and decided to devote his life to understanding this man Dostoevsky, who may lay claim to the mantle of the greatest novelist of the 19th century.

For lovers of literature, this is the prime stuff!
Gerceytone
Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871

"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half."
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Literary biography is a tough genre. The challenge for the biographer is to avoid doing a hatchet job on the one hand, and being a shill on the other (Max Brod's panegyric to Kafka comes to mind). Among the best at the genre are Richard Ellman (James Joyce, Oscar Wilde); Ron Powers (Mark Twain); Leon Edel (Henry James) and Joseph Frank, whose massive, five-volume biography of Dostoevsky is a marvel.
Frank succinctly sums up his task: "The aim of literary biography, as I conceive it, is to furnish readers with a context, drawn from the writer's personal life,as well as from the social, cultural, literary and philosphical background of his or her time, that will help toward a better understanding of the work."

The son of an abusive alcoholic father and a consumptive mother; a compulsive gambler, introspective and melancholic; given to epileptic seizures; sentenced to a Gulag and forced to serve in a Russian regiment; chronically broke and peripatetic; variously lionized and demonized by his critics and supporters -- there's enough material in Dostoevsky's life for a five volume biography, which, written over a 30 year period, Frank provides.

Of course he has a lot to work with: Dostoevsky left reams of material, including diaries, notebooks, letters, and manuscripts. His collected works, in Russian, run to 30 volumes. Frank makes ample use of this material, especially in his analysis of Dostoevsky's major works in this period, "Crime and Punishment," "The Idiot," and "The Devils." Like a bipolar person, Dostoevsky swung from deep depression to exalted heights. He could plumb the depths of human depravity one minute, and celebrate the heights of the human spirit the next.

An example is one of his frequent gambling binges. "(The letter) also contains a frank admission of his recent gambling escapades, which Dostoevsky explains, in his usual fashion, in terms of the lure of freeing himself from debt in one miraculous stroke. "In one fell swoop to get out of all these proceedings with his creditors, provide for myself for a time and for my family. "But Dostoevsky is honest enough to add that gambling contains its own vertiginous attraction ("You know how that draws you in") (Frank, P. 224)

Frank's scholarship is exemplary, his writing lucid, and his subject mesmerizing.
Mariwyn
Joseph Frank's biography of Dostoievsky is a picture of the artist in the context of his century. It is not only a brilliant portrait of a great man but an image of nineteenth century Russia. It is neither patronizing nor overly analytic, but provides a taste of Dostoievky's life - making his thoughts, actions, and writings fuse into a coherent whole. I have probably read hundreds of biographies in my life and this one is the best.
Getaianne
Joseph Frank, generally considered the world's foremost expert on Dostoyevsky, provides all the background you would ever need to truly understand the great mind that was Dostoyevsky. An indispensable guide to the master's great works.

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