Frank's great insight is that, just as no one aspect of Dostoevsky's complex personality can be separated from the others, no part of his writing-whether aesthetic, moral, religious or political-can be quarantined from the others. The result is like watching an artist building an intricate, large-scale painting around a single figure. Patient, cautious, critical but not judgmental, using clear language and a chronologically ordered narrative structure, Frank neutralises the unreliable and hysterical self-constructions of which his subject was capable. Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Timeat last offers non-specialist readers access to the definitive biography of an important figure in the history of the novel.
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