The series has been condensed with incisive care and respect, giving those with limited time (and budget) a chance to engage with a revelatory vision of the Russian writer's enduring greatness.' -Bill Marx, PRI's 'The World', 'A narrative of such compelling precision, thoroughness and insight as to give the reader a sense not just of acquaintanceship, but of complete identification with Dostoevsky, of looking through his eyes and understanding with his mind.'- Helen Muchnic, Boston Globe, This extraordinary biography succeeds in making both irony and great ideas wholly alive, immediately accessible to us. To both of these there is no better guide than Joseph Frank., 'Frank's monumental five-volume study of Dostoevsky deserves to be read, if only as an inspiring lesson about how much more thrilling a focus on ideas can be than the standard biography's obsession with the connections between creativity and the subject's personal life. To understand Dostoevsky's often savage satire or nightmarish visions or just the conversations among the Karamazov brothers, one needs to grasp not only the text but also the ideological context.

To both of these there is no better guide than Joseph Frank.'- Michael Dirda, Wall Street Journal, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time thus immediately becomes the essential one-volume commentary on the intellectual dynamics and artistry of this great novelist's impassioned, idea-driven fiction.

a narrative of such compelling precision, thoroughness and insight as to give the reader a sense not just of acquaintanceship, but of complete identification with Dostoevsky, of looking through his eyes and understanding with his mind., ' Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time thus immediately becomes the essential one-volume commentary on the intellectual dynamics and artistry of this great novelist's impassioned, idea-driven fiction. Donald Fanger, Los Angeles Times Book Review. It is unquestionably the fullest, most nuanced and evenhanded-not to mention the most informative-account of its subject in any language, and it has significantly changed our understanding of both the man and his work.

Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank