".
..
one of the great biographical projects of our times.
...
In his
aim of elucidating the setting within which Dostoevsky wrote–
personal on the one hand, social, historical, cultural, literary, and
philosophical on the other-Frank has succeeded triumphantly."
-New York Review of Books
DOSTO~VSKY
The Miraculous Years,
1865-1871
Joseph Frank
T
his long-awaited volume, the fourth of
five planned in Joseph Frank's widely
acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky,
does cover a truly miraculous period of his
life-the six most remarkably productive
years in the great novelist's entire career.
It was in this short span of time that
Dostoevsky produced three of his great–
est
novels-Crime and Punishment, The
Idiot,
and
The Devils-and
two of his best
novellas,
The Gambler
and
The Eternal
Husband.
All these masterpieces were
written in the midst of harrowing practi–
cal and economic circumstances, as
Dostoevsky moved around Europe, fre–
quently giving way to his passion for rou–
lette.
This latest installment is as beautifully
written, and as magisterial in scope, as its
award-winning predecessors.
Cloth: $35.00 iSBN 0-691-04364-7
ON
TH~
LAWS OF
TH~ PO~TI(
ART
Anthony Hecht
"Anthony Hecht is very much
our poet-critic now, even as
John Crowe Ransom and
w.
H. Auden were in previous
generations. His On
the Laws of
the Poetic Art
is civilized and
superb criticism of the higher
relations between poetry and
the other arts, and is particu-
larly valuable in this dark time,
when barbarism and politics
threaten all the arts."
-Harold Bloom
I
n six engaging lectures, the eminent
poet Anthony Hecht explores the art
of poetry and its relation to the other
fine arts. While the problems he treats
entail both philosophic and theoretical
discussion, he never allows abstract
speculation to overshadow his respect
for and delight in the written texts that
he introduces-or in the specific ex–
amples of painting and music to which
he refers.
The
A.
W.
Mellon Lectures
In
the Fine
Arts:
Bollingen Series
7 color Illustrations. 47 halftones.
Cloth: $24.95 ISBN 0-691-04363-9
Due April
1995
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
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