![]() ![]() ![]() To understand Dostoevsky's often savage satire or nightmarish visions or just the conversations among the Karamazov brothers, one needs to grasp not only the text but also the ideological context. Coetzee, New York Review of Books "Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time thus immediately becomes the essential one-volume commentary on the intellectual dynamics and artistry of this great novelist's impassioned, idea-driven fiction. ![]() a multifaceted tribute from an erudite and penetrating cultural critic to one of the great masters of 19th-century fiction."-Michael Scammell, New York Times Book Review "It is unquestionably the fullest, most nuanced and evenhanded-not to mention the most informative-account of its subject in any language, and it has significantly changed our understanding of both the man and his work."-Donald Fanger, Los Angeles Times Book Review "In his aim of elucidating the setting within which Dostoevsky wrote-personal on the one hand, social, historical, cultural, literary, and philosophical on the other-Frank has succeeded triumphantly."-J. ![]() Wrought with tireless love and boundless ingenuity, it. It is, rather, an exhaustive history of Dostoyevsky's mind, an encyclopedic account of the author as major novelist and thinker, essayist and editor, journalist and polemicist. This is not a literary biography in the usual sense of the term. Co-Winner of the Etkind Prize, European University at St. ![]()
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