Volume 1, Number 2 · June 1, 1963
A Raw Deal
By Joseph Frank
Dostoevsky
by David Magarshack
Harcourt Brace & World, $8.75
David Magarshack's book is the latest attempt to write a full-scale biography of Dostoevsky in English, and it is far and away the inferior of two earlier rivals in the field by E. H. Carr and Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Mr. Magarshack's fat volume has one merit and one only—it includes a good deal of factual information in translation. Otherwise, it is a disastrous performance in every respect.
Review, 2535 words
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