#RussianLit #Fifthandfinalvolume #TheMantleoftheProphet(1871-1881)
"My concern with Dostoevsky, as I explained in the preface to my first volume, had grown out of my interest in #FrenchExistentialism. For Sartre and Camus, a work such as #NotesfromUnderground and characters such as Raskolnikov in #CrimeandPunishment and Kirilliov in #TheDevils had become essential landmarks to which they referred in defining their own points of view"(xi).
#RussianLit #Volume4 #TheMiraculousYears(1865-1871)
"Indeed, precisely because of the statute of the creations that it deals with, this fourth volume is a crucial one for my whole undertaking. I began with the idea, many years ago, that a close and exhaustive study of the Russian social social-cultural context would yield more fruitful results...than the usual approaches that had been taken, especially in Western criticism"(xi).
"This second volume of the life of Dostoyevsky deals with the period between the time of his arrest as a conspirator in the Petrashevsky case and his return to St. Petersburg, ten years later, a changed man both physically and spiritually. It's focus will be on this process of change: it's causes in the excruciating experiences he went through, and it's consequences...so far as...in opening up for him the path to future greatness"(3).
#RussianLit @bookcollecter
The Quintessential & comprehensive five volume biography of #FyodorDostoyevesky
"... brilliantly combines biography with intellectual history." (Paul Gray, Time Magazine)
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 | 
