Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation 1860-1865, Volume 3

Joseph Frank

Princeton University Press, 1986 - Biography & Autobiography - 395 pages

"This volume, the third of five in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, begins with the writer's return to St. Petersburg, after a ten-year Siberian exile. Having met with sudden fame as the highly praised young author of Poor Folk in 1845, Dostoevsky was abruptly forgotten after his arrest and exile for political conspiracy. He came back to the capital determined to reestablish his literary reputation. Now as the editor of and writer for two literary journals that joined in the cultural and social ferment of Russia in the early 1860s, Dostoevsky was to discover the themes that would underlie his mature masterpieces. Frank describes the intricate process of the novelist's self-definition, in interaction with all the forces of the "stir of liberation" under Alexander II." --Cover.

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Review: Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (Dostoevsky biography #3)

User Review  - Bryn Hammond - Goodreads

Years spent on journalism. Much more lively a tale than I thought. He remains the champion of psychic freedom against the determinism of his day. It's this that caused his split with the Left -- as ...

Review: Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (Dostoevsky biography #3)

User Review  - Eduardo - Goodreads

Ive read the first 3 volumes of Frank's classic bio on Dostoevsky and I am amazed at the detail & level of care, insight, & academic depth this great work possesses. It is simply mind boggling to read ...

Contents

• Exiles Return: 8
• A Bit of Liberty A Bit of Freedom: 22
• A New Movement Pochvennichestvo: 34
• Into the Fray: 48
• Petersburg Visions: 64
• An Aesthetics of Transcendence: 76
• Polemical Skirmishes: 94
• The Insulted and Injured: 110
• The First Leaflets: 133
• Young Russia: 145
• Portrait of a N ihilist: 160
• The Land of Holy Wonders: 179
• Time The Final Months: 197
• House of the Dead: 213
• Winter Notes on Summer Impressions: 233
• An Emancipated Woman: 251
• A Tormented Lover: 268
• Epoch: 283
• Will I Ever See Masha Again?: 296
• Notes from Underground: 310
• The End of Epoch: 348
• The Vitality of a Cat: 367
• Index: 389

About the author

Joseph Frank is the author of an award-winning multivolume biography of Dostoevsky.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation 1860-1865, Volume 3
• Author: Joseph Frank
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1986
• ISBN: 0691014523, 9780691014524
• Length: 395 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Literary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union