List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Transliteration and Texts xv PART I: SOME "STRANGE, 'UNFINISHED' IDEAS" Chapter 1: Introduction 3 Chapter 2: "The Unhappiest of Mortals" 9 Chapter 3: Khlestakov in Wiesbaden 25 Chapter 4: "Our Poor Little Defenseless Boys and Girls" 42 Chapter 5: The Sources of Crime and Punishment 60 Chapter 6: From Novella to Novel 80 Chapter 7: A Reading of Crime and Punishment 96 PART II: REMARRIAGE Chapter 8: "A Little Diamond" 151 Chapter 9: The Gambler 170 Chapter 10: Escape and Exile 184 Chapter 11: Turgenev and Baden-Baden 204 Chapter 12: Geneva: Life among the Exiles 223 PART III: A RUSSIAN IDEAL Chapter 13: In Search of a Novel 241 Chapter 14: "A Perfectly Beautiful Man" 256 Chapter 15: An Inconsolable Father 276 Chapter 16: Across the Alps 294 Chapter 17: The Idiot 316 Chapter 18: Historical Visions 342 PART IV: THE PAMPHLET AND THE POEM Chapter 19: The Life of a Great Sinner 365 Chapter 20: The Eternal Husband 382 Chapter 21: Fathers, Sons, and Stavrogin 396 Chapter 22: Exile's Return 413 Chapter 23: History and Myth in The Devils: I 435 Chapter 24: History and Myth in The Devils: ii 453 Chapter 25: The Book of the Impostors 472 Chapter 26: Conclusion 499 Abbreviations 503 Notes 505 Index 517
Joseph Frank is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature Emeritus at Stanford University. For Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859, Frank won the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. In addition to the previous volumes of Dostoevsky, he is the author of Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture (Princeton).
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
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