Dostoevsky - Vol. 3) The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (1986. e2020)

The book description for the previously published "Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865" is not yet available. List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Transliteration and Texts xv PART I: A TIME OF HOPE Chapter 1: Introduction 3 Chapter 2: Exile’s Return 8 Chapter 3: “A Bit of Liberty, A Bit of Freedom” 22 Chapter 4: A New Movement: Pochvennichestvo 34 Chapter 5: Into the Fray 48 Chapter 6: Petersburg Visions 64 Chapter 7: An Aesthetics of Transcendence 76 Chapter 8: Polemical Skirmishes 94 Chapter 9: The Insulted and Injured 110 PART II: THE ERA OF PROCLAMATIONS Chapter 10: The First Leaflets 133 Chapter 11: Young Russia 145 Chapter 12: Portrait of a Nihilist 160 Chapter 13: “The Land of Holy Wonders” 179 Chapter 14: Time: The Final Months 197 Chapter 15: House of the Dead 213 Chapter 16: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions 233 PART III: POLINA Chapter 17: An Emancipated Woman 251 Chapter 18: A Tormented Lover 268 PART IV: THE PRISON OF UTOPIA Chapter 19: Epoch 283 Chapter 20: “Will I Ever See Masha Again?” 296 Chapter 21: Notes from Underground 310 Chapter 22: The End of Epoch 348 Chapter 23: “The Vitality of a Cat” 367 Abbreviations 377 Notes 379 Index 389 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.