Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (DOSTOEVSKY (FRANK, JOSEPH))

The book description for the previously published "Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865" is not yet available. 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. Part I : A Time Of Hope. Introduction ; Exiles Return ; A Bit Of Liberty, A Bit Of Freedom ; A New Movement : Pochvennichestvo ; Into The Fray ; Petersburg Visions ; An Aesthetics Of Transcendence ; Polemical Skirmishes ; The Insulted And Injured -- Part Ii : The Era Of Proclamations. The First Leaflets ; Young Russia ; Portrait Of A Nihilist ; The Land Of Holy Wonders ; Time : The Final Months ; House Of The Dead ; Winter Notes On Summer Impressions -- Part Iii : Polina. An Emancipated Woman ; A Tormented Lover -- Part Iv : The Prison Of Utopia. Epoch ; Will I Ever See Masha Again? ; Notes From Underground ; The End Of Epoch ; The Vitality Of A Cat. Joseph Frank. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 379-388. Volume three of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the Russian novelist in any language and one of the greatest literary biographies ever written. In this monumental work, Frank blends biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism to illuminate Dostoevsky's works and set them in their personal, historical, and ideological context. More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work. This volume begins with the writer's return to Saint Petersburg after a ten-year Siberian exile and traces how his engagement in the cultural and social ferment of Russia in the early 1860s led to his discovery of the themes that would underlie his mature masterpieces. This present volume is the second in a series dealing with the life and works of Dostoevsky ... during the ten years [he] spent first in solitary confinement, then in a prison camp in Siberia, and finally as a soldier in one of the Siberian regiments of the Russian army. --Preface. The description for this book, Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859, will be forthcoming.