The Mantle of the Prophet 1871-1881

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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 of the Modern Language Association, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and other honors. In addition to the previous volumes of Dostoevsky, Frank is the author of Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture (Princeton), The Widening Gyre, and The Idea of Spatial Form.

Zusammenfassung

Celebrates literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky that renders the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote "A Raw Youth", "Diary of a Writer", and "The Brothers Karamazov". Describing his idiosyncratic relationship to the Russian state, this title also details Doestoevsky's rivalries with Turgenev and Tolstoy.

Zusatztext

"Co-Winner of the 2006 Etkind Prize, Best Book by a Western Scholar on Russian Literature/Culture, European University at St. Petersburg"

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Joseph Frank
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.12.2003
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher
• EAN: 9780691115696
• ISBN: 978-0-691-11569-6
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 15.4 x 23.4 x 4.3 cm
• Serie: Dostoevsky; Dostoevsky
• Themen: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Biography / Autobiography; LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet