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Title: A Masterpiece
Review: The limits of a non-vernacular literary biography are mostly intuitive but Frank makes you feel like Dostoevsky wrote in English. Not that he was English, or American, he was most assuredly very Russian, but Frank's effusive manner and luminous analysis bring out a character in Dostoevsky's early work that could be easily overlooked when, as I did I first, the reader jumps from Brothers Karamazov to Crime and Punishment to the Idiot and then jumps over to Tolstoy or Turgenev. Frank shows you the pleasure of staying with Dostoevsky, immersing yourself in Dostoevsky, and that is a strong achievement indeed.
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