A scholar concludes almost 50 years of biographical research with a final volume that reveals the novelist’s dark side Later this month, when Princeton University Press publishes the fifth volume of ...

NEW YORK — Joseph Frank — whose magisterial, five-volume life of Fyodor Dostoevsky was frequently cited among the greatest of 20th-century literary biographies — died Wednesday in Palo Alto, Calif. He ...

As a longterm fan of Dostoevsky (and yes, unusually for a 19th-century literary novelist, he does have a kind of fan club, many of whom are adolescents high on the thrill of first encountering his ...

His marriages were disastrous but his words were so rousing they made strangers embrace ... a superb study of the Russian novelist The first time he fell in love, Fyodor Dostoevsky was in his mid-30s.

Joseph Frank, whose magisterial, five-volume life of Fyodor Dostoevsky was frequently cited among the greatest of 20th-century literary biographies, alongside Richard Ellmann’s of James Joyce, Walter ...

In the mid-1950s, the young critic Joseph Frank, having been invited to give the Christian Gauss lectures at Princeton, settled on the then fashionable topic "Existential Themes in Modern Literature." ...

Few writers can draw on lived experience as dramatic as that of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Coming of age in St. Petersburg during a turbulent time in his country's history, he survived a death sentence, ...

Although he was born 200 years ago, in a world that should be foreign to me, Dostoevsky formed my way of seeing the world more than almost any other person has. As a college student, I read Notes From ...

Kevin Birmingham's deeply researched biography details the radical political fervor that almost destroyed Dostoevsky's life — and the real-life... 'The Sinner and the Saint' masterfully unpacks a ...

A year before he died of emphysema in 1881, Fyodor Dostoevsky was invited to speak at a festival in Moscow, held to celebrate the unveiling of a statue of Alexander Pushkin-then, as now, considered by ...

IN GENEVA, not far from the lake’s edge, is a cemetery with Russian Orthodox crosses. One of the crosses belongs to Fedor Dostoevsky’s daughter “Sophie”, who died in Geneva (according to the ...

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (UK: /ˌdɒstɔɪˈɛfski/, US: /ˌdɒstəˈjɛfski, ˌdʌs-/; Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, tr ...