Product Description

The first volume of Professor Frank's masterly study of the life and work of Dostoevsky covers his early years, from boyhood and the death of his father, to his years at the engineering academy in St Petersburg, his brief career as a government draughtsman and his involvement with Petrashevsky's radical group that led to his exile in Siberia. Through a lucid examination of his early writings - in particular Poor Folk, The Double and Netotchka Nezvanova - Frank provides convincing new insights into the influences that later shaped Dostoevsky's most important works.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3252618 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
"- 'One of the outstanding biographical artistic works of modern times.' Bernard Levin - 'Immensely scholarly, perceptive, engrossing and distinguished...' Observer

About the Author
Joseph Frank is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature Emeritus at Stanford University. Previous volumes of Dostoevsky have received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, two Christian Gauss Awards, two James Russell Lowell Awards, a Los Angeles Book prize and other honours. In addition to the previous volumes of Dostoevsky, Frank is author of Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture.