Joseph Frank
Paperback | Pages: 965 pages Rating: 4.57 | 113 Users | 14 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 |
| ISBN: | 6071602092 (ISBN13: 9786071602091) |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
| Series: | Dostoevsky #5 |
| Characters: | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Lemme get out all those hoary old reviewing adages out of the way, like "a crowning achievement", "a tour de force", "sexually compromising", et cetera.If you've read a lick of any of the five volumes of Frank's magisterial, seminal (gross!) biography/literary study of Dostoevsky, then you know what you're in for: more of the awesome. Frank takes you through the last decade of Dosty's curtailed life. As always, Frank tends to focus more closely on the literary output, and some folks might want more of the personal nitty-gritty, but Dost was so busy fighting off lame-ass, envious literary peers and emphysema (often in the same breath!), so there wasn't much time for soap opera shit.
As you can probably guess, much of this longest volume's length is taken up by a penetrating study of The Brothers Karamazov...140 goddamn pages. But Frank gives a lot of space to Diary of a Writer, too, in its various incarnations, and a couple of chapters just to the monumental "Pushkin" speech. Just as in the other volumes, where Frank really shines is placing Dosty in his intellectual and cultural milieu, showing the evolution of his agonizing appeal from his fellow man for a religiously-steeped moralism and the doctrine of free will, and how that central idea is pivotal in his novels.
I could literally go on for hours about this concluding volume, and all the others as well, but I won't.
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| Title | : | Dostoievski: El Manto del Profeta, 1871-1881 = Dostoievski (Dostoevsky #5) |
| Author | : | Joseph Frank |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 965 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2010 by Fondo de Cultura Economica USA (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Biography. Literature. Cultural. Russia. Russian Literature. Nonfiction. History |
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Ratings: 4.57 From 113 Users | 14 ReviewsRate Out Of Books Dostoievski: El Manto del Profeta, 1871-1881 = Dostoievski (Dostoevsky #5)
You feel Frank beginning slowly becoming less enamoured of Dostoyevsky in this volume; the antisemitism of these years often seems too much for him to bear, often resulting in sentences which praise the work, while acting as curtly worded invectives against Dostoevsky's character. There is no point in finding fault in Frank's judgements on Dostoyevsky's political, polemical rhetoric found in the Diary of A Writer articles, the letters and the journals -- they're acute and thoughtful as always.Lemme get out all those hoary old reviewing adages out of the way, like "a crowning achievement", "a tour de force", "sexually compromising", et cetera.If you've read a lick of any of the five volumes of Frank's magisterial, seminal (gross!) biography/literary study of Dostoevsky, then you know what you're in for: more of the awesome. Frank takes you through the last decade of Dosty's curtailed life. As always, Frank tends to focus more closely on the literary output, and some folks might want
NICE BOOK.
I have spent almost a year reading this five volume academic work, i can only say it was an amazing journey, Prof. Frank writes so clearly and with such depth both in the study of Dostoevsky's work, his life, his time and Russia of the late 1800s. I may have to spend another year re-reading it.
Beautiful finale, gripping and impressive.
This is the culmination of a five volume literary biography, the longest on any writer I am aware of - and the only one I have read of the five. It weighs in at more than 750 pages, and covers the last decade of Dostoevsky's life, when the writer's crusade for his vision for Russia really took off: he edited a "reactionary" newspaper, started his own (Writer's Diary), and wrote two novels, The Adolescent (aka A Raw Youth) and the blockbuster Brothers Karamazov, setting out his political stall
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