Between Religion and Rationality: Essays in Russian Literature and Culture Joseph Frank

(Princeton University Press) This book details some of the most important parts of 19th and 20th century Russian culture, literature, and history. In several essays, Frank examines themes relating to Dostoevsky — four of his most famous novels, his anti-Semitism, and the debate between novelists J.M. Coetzee and Mario Vargas Llosa on the issue of Dostoevsky and evil. Other essays investigate Oblomov’s influence on Samuel Beckett, the life of Pushkin, and Orlando Figes’s history of Russian culture. Frank is professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford and Princeton.