Dostoevsky was a representative of the Golden Age of Russian literature, which rivaled Tolstoy.
In 2014, Guangxi Normal University Press's well-known book brand "Literary Monuments" series launched a four-volume five-volume "Dostoevsky" by Dostoevsky authoritative researcher, Princeton University, and Stanford University Emeritus Professor Joseph Frank. At the urging of enthusiastic readers, the fifth volume, Dostoevsky: The Pinnacle of Literature, 1871-1881, was launched in March 2022. This complete five-volume version of Dostoevsky's "Standard Biography" integrates the experiments of biography, literary criticism, and sociocultural history to comprehensively interpret the writer's bumpy and magnificent life and profound works.
Dostoevsky (five volumes)
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The fifth volume restores the ins and outs of the birth of The Brothers Karamazov
The first four volumes of the biography already depict the creation and life of Dostoevsky for most of his life. In his debt-ridden and difficult life, he wrote masterpieces such as "Crime and Punishment" and "Demons". The fifth volume, Dostoevsky: The Pinnacle of Literature, 1871-1881, is the fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's prestigious Dostoevsky Literary-Cultural Biography, in which Frank describes, with unusual brilliance and elegance, the later decade of the writer's life, and Dostoevsky, in his extraordinary literary career and the end of his life course, to some extent foresaw the fate of Russia.
Volume V: Dostoevsky: The Pinnacle of Literature, 1871-1881
The fifth volume focuses on the establishment of Dostoevsky's final position in the Russian literary world, during which the writer wrote the Writer's Diary and its masterpiece "The Brothers Karamazov", and the biography recreates the creation of these works. Among them, "The Brothers Karamazov" is Dostoevsky's last work. The novel is based on a real father-killing case, depicting the sharp conflict between the elder Karamazov and his three sons, as well as the court trial of the father-killing case. On the surface, this is a father-killing case, but at a deep level, it is a drama about the human spirit. Dostoevsky: The Pinnacle of Literature, 1871-1881 restores the ins and outs of the novel's birth in a large number of pages, and in 200 pages, it interprets this broad, profound, and far-reaching work chapter by chapter.
It organically integrates the history of personal growth, social change and literary creation
Thus, the five-volume translation of Dostoevsky was completed. Frank's work is not so much a biography of Dostoevsky as a biography of Dostoevsky's work, because it does not tell the life of Dostoevsky in general, but interprets and analyzes all of Dostoevsky's works in detail.
Frank wrote a history of personal growth, social change, and literary creation, and organically integrated these three aspects by focusing on Dostoevsky's work. Standing on the shoulders of Many scholars such as Grossman, Dollynen, and Komarovitzi, Frank used the rich literary history and literary biographical writing experience of the English-speaking world to complete this huge work. Some media have called the five-volume Dostoevsky a fascinating, meaningful and gripping biography like a novel.
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