This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote "A Raw Youth", "Diary of a Writer", and his crowning triumph: "The Brothers Karamazov". Dostoevsky's final years at last won him the universal approval toward which he had always aspired. While describing his idiosyncratic relationship to the Russian state, Frank also details Doestoevsky's continuing rivalries with Turgenev and Tolstoy.Dostoevsky's appearance at the Pushkin Festival in June 1880, which preceded his death by one year, marked the apotheosis of his career - and of his life as a spokesman for the Russian spirit. There he delivered his famous speech on Pushkin before an audience stirred to a feverish emotional pitch: "Ours is universality attained not by the sword, but by the force of brotherhood and of our brotherly striving toward the reunification of mankind." This is the Dostoevsky who has entered the patrimony of world literature, though he was not always capable of living up to such exalted ideals. The writer's death in St. Petersburg in January of 1881 concludes this unparalleled literary biography - one truly worthy of Dostoevsky's genius and of the remarkable time and place in which he lived.

作者介绍

约瑟夫•弗兰克（Joseph Frank，1918—2013） 普林斯顿大学比较文学荣誉教授，斯坦福大学比较文学和斯拉夫语语言文学荣誉教授。代表作五卷本《陀思妥耶夫斯基》曾获美国国家图书奖（传记类），两次（美国大学优秀学生联谊会的）克里斯蒂安•高斯奖，两次（现代语言协会的）詹姆斯•拉塞尔•洛厄尔奖，《洛杉矶时报》图书奖以及另外一些荣誉。另著有《现代小说的空间形式》、《宗教与理性之间：俄国文学与文化随笔》、《回应现代性：文化政治随笔》等。

译者介绍

戴大洪 1982年毕业于北京工业学院（现北京理工大学）光学工程系。译有《第三共和国的崩溃：1940年法国崩溃之研究》、《雷蒙德•卡佛：一位作家的一生》、《古拉格：一部历史》。