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Article: Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 / A Writer's Diary. Volume One: 1872-1876. Volume Two: 1877-1881
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- Canadian Slavonic Papers
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- September 1, 1996
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Joseph Frank. Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xv, 523 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $35.00, cloth. Fyodor Dostoevsky. A Writer's Diary. Kenneth Lantz, trans. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. Volume One: 1872-1876. (1993). xvi, 805 pp. $45.95, cloth. Volume Two: 1877-1881. (1994). xii, 643 pp. Notes. Index. $39.95, cloth.
As Joseph Frank's biography of Dostoevsky continues its magisterial progress, it meets the problem that all such progressive or serial biographies are likely to encounter. As the subject grows old, so he or she becomes subject to fame. Letters of slight importance are kept by their recipients, chance ...