![]() ![]() But Lectures on Dostoevsky offers an accessible pathway into Frank’s expertise for both novices and enthusiasts. For some readers, however, a five-volume biography may be as daunting as a Russian novel-even the recent one-volume abridgment is roughly the size of War and Peace. It has won numerous scholarly and popular accolades and has been translated into multiple languages. His meticulously researched five-volume biography, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time, is considered the authoritative contemporary record of the Russian novelist’s tumultuous life. One recent such offering is a posthumously published collection of essays, Lectures on Dostoevsky, by the renowned scholar, Joseph Frank.įrank (1918-2013), who was professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford and Princeton, remains one of the most celebrated Dostoevsky scholars in the world. ![]() Whatever the cause, many new readers have turned to outside resources for interpretive guidance. There are myriad reasons for this -translation issues, cultural unfamiliarity, book-length. Audiences that absorb Dickens and Brontë with ardor are often prone to eye Tolstoy and Chekov askance. Even amongst serious readers, a common misperception persists that Russian literature is difficult and dull. ![]()
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