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.
To Aglaya, Myshkin is the Poor Knight of Pushkin's poem—a poem in which she sees united “in one striking figure the grand conception of the platonic love of medieval chivalry, as it was felt by a pure and lofty knight," a knight who was ...
My brother, for example, was captivated by him [Chernyshevsky] and so was I. He completely transformed my outlook " Nikolay Valentinov, Encounters with Lenin, trans. Paul Rosta and Brian Pearce (London, 1968), 63-64. of the novel to ...
Dostoevsky: Letters and Reminiscences
Studies the early life of the great nineteenth-century Russian writer, considering him first as a novelist, not as a member of the intelligentsia who happened to write novels The present is the first in a series devoted to the life and ...
An important look at bandwidth-efficient modulations with applications to today's Space programBased on research and results obtained at the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, this timely book defines, describes ...
Rowan Williams explores the intricacies of speech, fiction, metaphor, and iconography in the works of one of literature's most complex and most misunderstood, authors.
This new edition includes an index.
Using this as a starting point, Breger goes on to offer a detailed analysis of the novel, situating it at the pivotal point in Dostoevsky's life between the death of his first wife and his second marriage.
This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky details the last decade of the writer's life, a time that won him the universal approval towards which he always aspired.
This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
The essays in this collection are: PHILIP RAHV—Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment MURRAY KRIEGER—Dostoevsky’s “Idiot”: The Curse of Saintliness IRVING HOWE—Dostoevsky: The Politics of Salvation ELISEO VIVAS—The Two Dimensions ...
Dostoevsky's writings are criticized individually and in relation to one another against the background of his life and thought This is the best single work in any language about Dostoevsky's work as a whole.
The description for this book, Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859, will be forthcoming.
Ivan finds himself in an unbearable position, he professes to like and get along with his father yet, ... His need for faith is an aspect of the broader need for a meaningful identity, one that will encompass all of him, including his ...
The term "biography" seems insufficiently capacious to describe the singular achievement of Joseph Frank's five-volume study of the life of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. One critic, writing upon...
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.
... Istorm Revolyutsuonnot Musli v Rossu (Moscow, 1961), 252. 4. Venturi, Roots of Revolution, 293. 5. Ibid., 295-296. 6 I. S. Turgenev, Polnoe Sobrante Sochimenu, 28 vols. (Moscow-Leningrad, 19601968), 8.258 7. Strakhov, Buografiya, 239 ...
... Dostoevsky's The Idiot and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative : Reading , Narrating , Scripting ( Anthem Press , 2004 ) . Chapter 4 : Space , social justice , and scandal : Crime and Punishment I owe the observations about the ...