Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859

Joseph Frank (1918-2013) was an American literary scholar renowned for his five-volume biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, widely regarded as the definitive work on the Russian novelist in any language, published between 1976 and 2002.Joseph Frank (writer) - Wikipedia) His influential essay "Spatial Form in Modern Literature" (1945) established key concepts in modernist criticism, earning him the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize in 1977 and 1986, among other honors.Joseph Frank (writer) - Wikipedia)