David Foster Wallace on Dostoevsky’s. - Misfit Press.
In the appendices, readers will find David Foster Wallace’s essay “Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky,” an essay which Frank called his favorite. The title seems to strike against what I am arguing here—that Frank did create a version of the author.
Joseph Frank, at the time of Wallace’s essay, had converted “forty years of scholarly labor” into “the first four volumes of a projected five-book study of Dostoevsky’s life and times and writing.” (In 2002, Frank published the fifth and final volume, and in 2013, he passed away, aged 94.).
Tag Archives: joseph frank’s dostoevsky. Fiction and Non-Fiction and The Death of the Author. Posted on 20 February 2009 by lrose. and after reading more of his non-fiction I do still stand by the assertion that in his non-fiction essays, Wallace writes himself right into the text. Therefore, no probing beyond the text is even necessary.
In 1976, when he was a fifty-eight-year-old Princeton professor of comparative literature, Joseph Frank brought out the first volume of what has become a magisterial life of Fyodor Dostoevsky; at eighty-four, he has now published the fifth and last volume.
Great musicians, it is said, do not choose their calling—music chooses them. Reading and rereading Joseph Frank’s writings after his passing, it seems that the spirit of modernity itself chose him to be its voice among literary critics—in the age when brute force remaking the world was matched and animated by a titanic struggle of ideas.
Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky In this story, the author heaps praise on the biography of Dostoevsky that was written by Joseph Frank’s as one of the most accomplished writers. However, he also criticizes him where he may not have done well. Some Remarks on Kafka’s Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed.
This recently published volume collects Joseph Frank's Stanford lectures on Dostoevsky's major works. Aside from an introductory lecture, there are respective chapters on Poor Folk, The Double, The House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov.
Should I read Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky before or after I read Dostoevsky's works? Reading David Foster Wallace's essay on Frank's Dostoevsky when I had this question. I've read Crime and Punishment and excerpts from Brothers Karamazov, so far.
Dostoevsky biographer, Joseph Frank, says it thus, “Such conceptions, which spread very quickly among the younger generation, provided the philosophical underpinnings for the new morality preached by the radical ideology of the 1860s; and no ideas could have set Dostoevsky’s teeth more on edge.
The Wordsmith Wednesday this week comes from David Foster Wallace’s essay “Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky” from his book “Consider the Lobster.” The words are: “Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me?
Fyodor Dostoevsky was arrested, led to a platform, tied to a stake, and blindfolded before a firing squad. As his biographer Joseph Frank describes the scene: “A cart with coffins could be seen on the side, and a priest came carrying a cross, which they all kissed; some made confessions.
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (2005) is a collection of essays by novelist David Foster Wallace. It is also the title of one of the essays, which was published in Gourmet magazine in 2004. The title alludes to Consider the Oyster by M. F. K. Fisher. 1 Content.
HOW IRONIC. The essay “Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky” appears near the end of David Foster Wallace’s new collection, Consider the Lobster.In it, Wallace is writing about someone (Joseph Frank) writing about someone (Fyodor Dostoevsky) writing about Important Questions.
