Abridged ed. of author's work in 5 v.: Dostoevsky. c1976-2002
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Includes bibliographical references footnotes and index
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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Joseph Frank; edited by Mary Petrusewicz
ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE
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CONTENTS NOTE
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The seeds of revolt, 1281-9481. Prelude; The family; The religious and cultural background; The academy of engineers; The two romanticisms; The Gogol period; Poor folk; Dostoevsky and the Pleiade; Belinsky and Dostoevsky: I; Feuilletons and experiments; Belinsky and Dostoevsky: II; The Beketov and Petrashevsky circles; Dostoevsky and Speshnev -- The years of ordeal, 0581-9581. The Peter-and-Paul Fortress; Katorga; "Monsters in their misery"; Private Dostoevsky; A Russian heart; The Siberian novellas; Homecoming -- The stir of liberation, 0681-5681. Into the fray; An aesthetics of transcendence; The insulted and injured; The era of proclamations; Portrait of a nihilist; Time: the final months; Winter notes on summer impressions; An emancipated woman, a tormented lover; The prison of utopia; Notes from underground; The end of Epoch -- The miraculous years, 5681-1781. Khlestakov in Wiesbaden; From novella to novel; Crime and punishment; "A little diamond"; The gambler; Escape and exile; In search of a novel; An inconsolable father; The idiot; The pamphlet and the poem; Fathers, sons, and Stavrogin; Exile's return; History and myth in Demons; The book of the impostors -- The mantle of the prophet, 1781-1881. The citizen; Narodnichestvo: Russian populism; Bad ems; A raw youth; A public figure; The diary of a writer, 6781-7781; A new novel; The great debate; Rebellion and the Grand Inquisitor; Terror and martial law; The Pushkin festival; Controversies and conclusions; The Brothers Karamazov: books 1-4; The Brothers Karamazov: books 5-6; The Brothers Karamazov: books 7-21; Death and transfiguration