Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849
A Cultural, Literature, History book. Years later, when Dostoevsky was reading the book of Job once...
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 engagement with the writer's life, directly caught up as Dostoevsky was with the...
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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... 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... 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...
This book is more than a simple biography of Dostoevsky. It is an analysis of his works and an in depth study of the cultural and intellectual influences on his early writings. I learned a great deal about the writers and philosophies of this period in Russia. This not only illuminates Dostoevsky's work, but it clarifies themes of other... Extremely detailed. Despite Frank's obssesion with cultural context as well as drawing out many of Dostoevsky's friends, Dostoevsky himself comes through. A cold chill ran over me when,in the last pages of this volume, Dostoevsky gets hauled off to prison. If you are reading this book or planning to read this book, you probably already know about Dostoevsky. In my opinion this books presents a classic chicken and egg problem - should I read Dostoevsky's books first or this book about Dostoevsky? If you face this dilemma, I would suggest you read at least a couple of Dostoevsky's books...
