![]() But it is, above all, the profound social and personal history that makes Frank's volumes stand above other studies of the great Russian novelist. All of Frank's volumes contain analyses of Dostoevsky's novels original enough to interest the knowledgeable, yet lucid enough to help those unable to distinguish, say, Alexander Ivanovich from Ivan Alexandrovich. In 1976, he published "Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849," followed by "The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859," "The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865," and "The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871." Now, at last, we have the fifth and final volume-"The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881"-and it is the richest of Frank's monumental work, its 812 pages covering the last decade of Dostoevsky's life. Dostoevsky The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 by Joseph Frank Princeton University Press, 812 pp., $35 FOR MORE THAN twenty-five years, Joseph Frank has been writing the biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky. ![]()
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