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Title: Dostoevsky : The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 by Joseph Frank ISBN: 0-691-11569-9 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Antisemitic Prophet?
Comment: Not until in this the fifth and final volume of Frank's biographical look at Dostoevsky's books is the issue of antisemitism fully dealt with, and good heavens what PASSIM references there are! Finally, Dostoevsky's introduction of the blood libel myth into The Brothers Karamazov got on Frank's nerves (I don't know if Frank is Jewish though): "[T]hat Dostoevsky should have introduced such material at all, no matter how topical it may have been, leaves a permanent stain on his reputation that nothing can efface.....NOW, he gives the widest possible circulation to this age-old vilification, first used in classical antiquity against the early Christians themselves." (p. 670)
Yet Frank's words for the book itself include: "genius," "grandeur," "poetic power," "symbolic elevation," "a monumental power of self-expression to his characters which rivals that of Dante's sinners and saints, Shakespeare's titanic heroes and villains, and Milton's gods and archangels....with the same superhuman majesty as the figures of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel." To save ink Frank might as well compare The Brothers Karamazov to the Old Testament. (This would be appropriate as Christianity is a leitmotif in Dostoevsky's works.)
Such a brilliant book! (Dostoevsky's, that is.) Little wonder that Einstein, someone I admire very much, also liked it a lot, antisemitism notwithstanding.
Frank's biographical criticism runs to almost 3,000 pages from Volume I-V. I'd hoped at least 300 of those pages would be devoted to The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky's masterpiece) but I got half that number.
The "mantle of prophet" which Frank refers to of course has nothing to do with antisemitism: He means that Dostoevsky was, even more than Pushkin, the prophet of the Russian radical spirit.
A long time will pass before another definitive work on Dostoevsky supersedes this multi-volume masterpiece.
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Title: Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 by Joseph Frank ISBN: 0691015872 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 09 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Writer's Diary: 1873-1876 by Kenneth Lantz, Gary Saul Morson, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky ISBN: 0810115166 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Reading Dostoevsky by Victor Terras ISBN: 0299160548 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin, Roger Keys, Angela Keys, Angela Jones ISBN: 0811215482 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Karamazov Companion: Commentary on the Genesis, Language, and Style of Dostoevsky's Novel by Victor. Terras ISBN: 0299083144 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: 26 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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