Joseph Frank is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of a five-volume study of Dostoevsky’s life and work. The first four volumes received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, two Christian Gauss Awards, two James Russell Lowell Awards of the Modern Language Association, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and other honors. Frank is also the author of Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture, The Widening Gyre, and The Idea of Spatial Form. He also wrote the introduction to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Dostoevsky’s The House of the Dead and Poor Folk.
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Dostoevsky had various and distressing personal defects,” wrote Arnold Bennet, but his humanity and his wisdom, doubtless derived from the man Jesus who delivered the Sermon on the Mount, are unique.” In The Idiot, Dostoevsky pits his delirious insights into the human heart against conventional religion and the machinery of Russian society.
Prince Myshkin dramatizes Dostoevsky’s image of a perfectly beautiful man,” a being who comes as close as humanly possible to the Christian ideal; but for Dostoevsky there was only one positively beautiful figure in the world Christ,” and the appearance of Christ had been an infinite miracle.” There could only be one God-man; and while He remained an eternal aspiration for humanity, such aspiration could never obviously receive its complete fulfillment.
from the Introduction by Joseph Frank
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