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Lia

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« on: July 18, 2007, 03:07:32 PM »
Can you recommend me what you see as the best Dostoevsky´s biography?
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« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2007, 09:28:16 PM »
      There is a 4 vol. bio by Joseph Frank that is highly recommended.  It might be worth the time.
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« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2007, 05:34:53 PM »
I am currently reading the 5 volume biography by Joseph Frank.  It is amazing.  I read C&P long ago and also Brothers and Notes.  I felt that there were things I was missing (references to issues, views, etc.) in all of D's works so I decided to do some research.  So now I am reading the biography and stopping when I get to one of the major works in order to read it as I read the biography.  I have such a greater appreciation for Notes and C&P now.  The biography is not the boring type at all as some can be.  It is an in depth analysis of the socio-political climate throughout D's career.  It reads like a combination of biography, literary criticism and Russian history of the mid 19th century.  Other authors' works that influenced D are also discussed at length (Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?).  I can't recommend it highly enough.
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« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2008, 05:06:59 PM »
I just picked up a couple of older bio's, Firebrand; the life of D and Dostoevsky: Reminiscences by his daughter.  

Hope they're good.
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