Dostoevsky : the mantle of the prophet, 1871-1881
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Dostoevsky : the mantle of the prophet, 1871-1881
（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, 2003, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"first paperback printing, 2003"--T.p. verso
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Description
This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote A Raw Youth, Diary of a Writer, and his crowning triumph: The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoevsky's final years at last won him the universal approval toward which he had always aspired. While describing his idiosyncratic relationship to the Russian state, Frank also details Doestoevsky's continuing rivalries with Turgenev and Tolstoy. Dostoevsky's appearance at the Pushkin Festival in June 1880, which preceded his death by one year, marked the apotheosis of his career--and of his life as a spokesman for the Russian spirit. There he delivered his famous speech on Pushkin before an audience stirred to a feverish emotional pitch: "Ours is universality attained not by the sword, but by the force of brotherhood and of our brotherly striving toward the reunification of mankind." This is the Dostoevsky who has entered the patrimony of world literature, though he was not always capable of living up to such exalted ideals. The writer's death in St.
Petersburg in January of 1881 concludes this unparalleled literary biography--one truly worthy of Dostoevsky's genius and of the remarkable time and place in which he lived.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Transliteration and Texts xv PART I: A NEW BEGINNING Chapter 1: Introduction 3 Chapter 2: A Quiet Return 14 Chapter 3: Grazhdanin: The Citizen 38 Chapter 4: Narodnichestvo: Russian Populism 65 Chapter 5: The Diary of a Writer, 1873: I 87 Chapter 6: The Diary of a Writer, 1873: II 103 Chapter 7: At Bad Ems 120 Chapter 8: A Literary Proletarian 130 Chapter 9: Notes for A Raw Youth 149 Chapter 10: A Raw Youth: Dostoevsky's Trojan Horse 171 PART II: A PERSONAL PERIODICAL Chapter 11: A New Venture 199 Chapter 12: A Public Figure 215 Chapter 13: Intimations of Mortality 235 Chapter 14: The Diary of a Writer, 1876-1877 254 Chapter 15: Toward The Brothers Karamazov 282 Chapter 16: The Jewish Question 301 Chapter 17: Turgenev, Tolstoy ,and Others 320 Chapter 18: Stories and Sketches 338 PART III: "WITH WORDS TO SEAR THE HEARTS OF MEN" Chapter 19: Resurrection and Rebellion 361 Chapter 20: Man in the Middle 377 Chapter 21: A New Novel--and a Feuilleton 390 Chapter 22: The Great Debate 407 Chapter 23: Rebellion and the Grand Inquisitor 426 Chapter 24: A Last Visit 443 Chapter 25: An Impatient Reader 460 Chapter 26: Terror and Martial Law 475 Chapter 27: The Pushkin Festival 497 Chapter 28: Pushkin: Two Readings 514 Chapter 29: The Diary of a Writer, 1880 533 Chapter 30: Controversies and Conclusions 548 PART IV: THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV Chapter 31: The Brothers Karamazov: Books 1-2 567 Chapter 32: The Brothers Karamazov: Books 3-4 588 Chapter 33: The Brothers Karamazov: Book 5 600 Chapter 34: The Brothers Karamazov: Book 6 621 Chapter 35: The Brothers Karamazov: Book 7 636 Chapter 36: The Brothers Karamazov: Books 8-9 646 Chapter 37: The Brothers Karamazov: Books 10-11 662 Chapter 38: The Brothers Karamazov: Book 12 684 PART V: DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION Chapter 39: Notes for a Phantom Future 707 Chapter 40: A National Symbol 722 Chapter 41: Finale 740 Notes 757 Index 775
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