Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849
A Cultural, History, Russian Literature book. Kant explained that the consciousness of good and evil is innate to mankind, written...
The term "biography" seems insufficiently capacious to describe the singular achievement of Joseph Frank's five-volume study of the life of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. One critic, writing upon the publication of the final volume, casually tagged the series as the ultimate work on Dostoevsky "in any language, and quite possibly forever."Frank himself had not originally intended to undertake such a massive work. The endeavor began in the early 1960s as an exploration of Dostoevsky's fiction, but it later became apparent to Frank that a deeper appreciation of the fiction would require a more ambitious...
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Kant explained that the consciousness of good and evil is innate to mankind, written indelibly into the human heart. Earthly life, however, reveals a glaring contradiction: the virtuous in this world, those who choose to live by the good and obey the moral law, are not always the ones who prosper and receive their just reward. But if, as we must assume, the Eternal Creative Mind is rational and beneficent, then we must also assume that this contradiction will not be left unresolved. Hence we postulate the existence of an immortal life after physical... Years later, when Dostoevsky was reading the book of Job once again, he wrote his wife that it put him into such a state of "unhealthy rapture" that he almost cried. "It's a strange thing, Anya, this books is one of the first in my life which made an impression on me; I was then still almost a child." There is an allusion to this revelatory experience of the young boy in The Brothers Karamazov, where Zosima recalls being struck by a reading of the book of Job at the age of eight and feeling that "for the first time in my life I consciously received the... A typical Russian Romantic of the 1830's, Shidlovsky was consumed, as they all were, with unappeasable desires that could not be satisfied within the bounds of earthly life. His few extant poems are all expressions of this Romantic malaise, which leads him to melancholy questionings about the meaning of human existence. No answer is ever given to these inquiries, but Shidlovsky is consoled by the belief that there is a God who sometimes vouchsafes his presence in nature and holds out hope of solace to unhappy humans. Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: The Seeds...
It can't have been easy to do. If you wanted to be Robert Frank, you would wake up one day and:Step 1: Learn Russian, French, and German. Throw in some Old Church Slavonic.Step 2: Read oeuvre of Belinsky, Gogol, Turgenev, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Herzen, Bakunin, George Sand, Voltaire, Rousseau, Fourier (ugh) and many, many others,... I gratefully collected this at the post office today, and have done almost nothing but read this book, today. Best staycation ever!This is a wonderful book by an erudite historian who happens to be the foremost expert on Dostoevsky's life and work. It isn't done in the typical fashion of the popular biography, i.e., filled with useless... I began this book about 13 years ago! Now I wish to finish it, along with every one of Dostoyevsky's works. Only 4 more volumes to go. Hopefully it does not take me so long to read the other volumes. Joseph Frank does an amazing job here of describing with depth the historical, political, literary and philosophical contexts in which...
