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Dostoevsky, Fyodor.(Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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From: Biography
Date: 20030622
Author:Kelly, Aileen

Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881. Joseph Frank. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2002. 784 pp. $35.00.

"According to Frank, it was the work of Russian scholars that, back in the 1970s, inspired his project: to fill the gap in Western criticism of Dostoevsky by approaching his works within the social and cultural milieu to which they were clearly a response. The result is a monumental achievement, part biography, part cultural history. Its fifth and final volume breaks the self-imposed taboo of so many non-Russian critics by paying explicit attention to the ideology of ...

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