Dostoevsky The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 /

Dostoevsky The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 / The miraculous years, 1865-1871 / The miraculous years, 1865-1871 .

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frank, Joseph, 1918-2013
Format: Electronic Map
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Novelists, Russian > 19th century > Biography.
Russia > Intellectual life > 1801-1917.
Biographies.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • I. Some "Strange, 'unfinished' ideas." "The unhappiest of mortals"
  • Khlestakov in Wiesbaden
  • "Our poor little defenseless boys and girls"
  • The sources of Crime and punishment
  • From novella to novel
  • A reading of Crime and punishment. II. Remarriage. "A little diamond"
  • The gambler
  • Escape and exile
  • Turgenev and Baden-Baden
  • Geneva: life among the exiles. III. A Russian ideal. In search of a novel
  • "A perfectly beautiful man"
  • An inconsolable father
  • Across the Alps
  • The idiot
  • Historical visions. IV. The pamphlet and the poem. The life of the great sinner
  • The eternal husband
  • Fathers, sons, and Stavrogin
  • Exile's return
  • History and myth in The devils
  • The book of the imposters.

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