Dostoevsky The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871

Winner of the 1995 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa "[Dostoevsky] is the genius who has done the most to illumine nineteenth-century Russian psychology and to make the terrifying problems of atheism and nihilism part of the modernism we still grapple with. Frank's magisterial five-volume study of his life and work ... salutes the grandeur of Dostoevsky's project."--Lesley Chamberlain, The [London] Times "In his aim of elucidating the setting within which Dostoevsky wrote-personal on the one hand, social, historical, cultural, literary, and philosophical on the other-Frank has succeeded triumphantly."--J. M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books "[Frank's] high contribution is to chronicle the life and elaborate the social-political-cultural matrix in which to consider the writings, and to do this more thoroughly and comprehensively than has been previously done."--Stephen Jan Parker, The New York Times Book Review "For a reader ready to grapple with the most powerful ideas and feelings in Dostoevsky's extraordinary life and work, this book is a godsend."--Irwin Weil, The Washington Post Book World