Dostoevsky: His Life and Work

by Konstantin Mochulsky, Michael A. Minihan (Translator)

Overview

Konstantin Mochulsky's critical biography is, in the words of George Gibian, "the best single work in any language about Dostoevsky's work as a whole." Through its close and insightful analysis of individual writings, relating them to his personal life and fortunes, it provides a sustained account of Dostoevsky's evolution as a novelist. Already established as a modern classic in the original Russian and in the French translation, this superb book is now available in English.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691012995
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	11/21/1971
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	712
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

What People are Saying About This

Edward Wasiolek

Mochulsky's approaches the work of Dostoevsky from every possible angle; he gives us much of Dostoevksy's biography; something of literary process and the conditions in which he worked; something of literary history, influences, and critical comments and reactions.

Editorial Reviews

"No scholar has made such exhaustive and revealing use of all the evidence of the notebooks . . . In an attempt to clarify Dostoevsky's art and thought."

New York Times Book Review

"An extensive study of the development of Dostoevsky's creative art and intellectual thought by an analysis in depth of the total corpus of his writings."—-Ernest J. Simmons, New York Times

From the Publisher

An extensive study of the development of Dostoevsky's creative art and intellectual thought by an analysis in depth of the total corpus of his writings.

New York Times - Ernest J. Simmons

An extensive study of the development of Dostoevsky's creative art and intellectual thought by an analysis in depth of the total corpus of his writings.
— Ernest J. Simmons

New York Times

This work is an extensive study of the development of Dostoevsky's creative art and intellectual thought by an analysis in depth of the total purpose of his writings. All the facts of his life and literary activity related to this purpose are skillfully employed. In order to establish a unified and comprehensible pattern of artistic and intellectual development, Mochulsky constantly elucidates in his study the psychological and the existential meaning of Dostoevsky's religious ideology.
&#!51; The New York Times

Ernest J. Simmons