5/22/2023 0 Comments Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank![]() It is difficult to give any connected account of Mr. Magarshack’s book were changed or omitted, not even the wildest imagination could guess that this sniveling, grasping, sadistic, cowardly and malevolent little nonentity was the author of some of the greatest novels in modern literature. If by some chance, however, the name of the subject of Mr. Both writers make no attempt to conceal their disagreements with Dostoevsky, but both remember that, after all, they are dealing with a man of genius. Yarmolinsky’s book, which appeared in 1934 and was revised in 1960, gave us Dostoevsky with a heavy dose of Freud but this again enables him to treat his subject with tolerance and equanimity. ![]() Carr to approach his material with a certain amount of amused sympathy and his book has the further merit of making a serious effort to cope with Dostoevsky’s art. Carr’s book, which appeared in 1931 and has recently been reprinted in England, is written from a supercilious, English-upper-class stance that regards all Russians as quite mad to begin with. ![]() Otherwise, it is a disastrous performance in every respect.Į. Magarshack’s fat volume has one merit and one only-it includes a good deal of factual information in translation. David Magarshack’s book is the latest attempt to write a full-scale biography of Dostoevsky in English, and it is far and away the inferior of two earlier rivals in the field by E. ![]()
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