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.

作者介紹

約瑟夫•弗蘭剋（Joseph Frank，1918—2013） 普林斯頓大學比較文學榮譽教授，斯坦福大學比較文學和斯拉夫語語言文學榮譽教授。代錶作五捲本《陀思妥耶夫斯基》曾獲美國國傢圖書奬（傳記類），兩次（美國大學優秀學生聯誼會的）剋裏斯蒂安•高斯奬，兩次（現代語言協會的）詹姆斯•拉塞爾•洛厄爾奬，《洛杉磯時報》圖書奬以及另外一些榮譽。另著有《現代小說的空間形式》、《宗教與理性之間：俄國文學與文化隨筆》、《迴應現代性：文化政治隨筆》等。

譯者介紹

戴大洪 1982年畢業於北京工業學院（現北京理工大學）光學工程係。譯有《第三共和國的崩潰：1940年法國崩潰之研究》、《雷濛德•卡佛：一位作傢的一生》、《古拉格：一部曆史》。