May 17, 2002

Wrestling Dostoevsky

By SCOTT MCLEMEE

A scholar concludes almost 50 years of biographical research with a final volume that reveals the novelist's dark side

Later this month, when Princeton University Press publishes the fifth volume of his Dostoevsky biography, Joseph Frank will be in France with his wife. The man has earned his vacation. Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 brings to its conclusion a project that has occupied Mr. Frank for nearly half a century. Beginning with the first volume, in 1976,

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