《透过俄罗斯棱镜》内容简介

　　约瑟夫·弗兰克为陀思妥耶夫斯基撰写的系列传记现在被公认为是传记作品在二十世纪取得的一项重大成就，在以各种语言撰写的陀思妥耶夫斯基传记中，这也许是最佳作品。

　　在努力撰写这部传记的漫长过程中，弗兰克还根据他对西方思想的敏锐见解撰写了一些文章、书评和随笔，阐述当西方思想透过俄罗斯棱镜反映出来时如何改观变形以及如何被赋予新的意义和内涵。多年来，俄罗斯与西方之间的这种相互影响深深吸引了弗兰克，同时也为这些论文提供了焦点。

　　本书汇集了二十篇文章，它们涉及孕育了陀思妥耶夫斯基那些伟大小说的文化以及二十世纪初期俄国形式主义者的批评理论，后者的观念至今仍然塑造着我们对俄罗斯文学和世界文学的看法。本书的内容包括对雅各布森和巴赫金的著作的评价，也包括对一些与俄国形式主义批评理论和思想发展有关的著作的评价。本书的核心内容是一些关于陀思妥耶夫斯基及其生活创作环境以及他对世界文学的影响的文章。其中包括弗兰克以新标准论述拉尔夫·埃利森受益于陀思妥耶夫斯基的文章以及用批判的目光审视弗洛伊德那篇关于这位俄罗斯大师的世界著名论文的文章。

　　这些文章汇集在一起展示了我们这个时代的某种富有力量的批评才智，它们涉及的问题因弗兰克研究陀思妥耶夫斯基而产生，但是，对这些问题的讨论极大地超越了这位小说家个人所处的时代和地域。

　　作者简介

　　约瑟夫·弗兰克（Joseph Frank，1918—2013）

　　普林斯顿大学比较文学荣休教授，斯坦福大学比较文学和斯拉夫语言文学荣休教授。代表作五卷本《陀思妥耶夫斯基》（1976-2002）曾获美国全国图书评论俱乐部奖（传记类），两次（美国大学优秀学生联谊会的）克里斯蒂安·高斯奖，两次（现代语言协会的）詹姆斯·拉塞尔·洛厄尔奖，《洛杉矶时报》图书奖以及另外一些荣誉。另著有《扩张的旋涡：现代文学中的危机与掌控（1963）》、《空间形式的理念》（1991）、《宗教与理性之间：俄国文学与文化随笔》（2010）、《回应现代性：文化政治随笔》（2012）、《陀思妥耶夫斯基讲稿》（2020）等。

　　戴大洪1982年毕业于北京工业学院（现北京理工大学）光学工程系。译有《第三共和国的崩溃：1940年法国沦陷之研究》《古拉格：一部历史》《陀思妥耶夫斯基：反叛的种子，1821-1849》《陀思妥耶夫斯基：受难的岁月，1850-1859》《陀思妥耶夫斯基：自由的苏醒，1860-1865》《陀思妥耶夫斯基：非凡的年代，1865-1871》《陀思妥耶夫斯基：文学的巅峰，1871-1881》《西班牙内战：革命与反革命》《雷蒙德·卡佛：一位作家的一生》和《人民的悲剧：俄国革命，1891-1924》（待出）等。2013年被深圳读书月“年度十大好书”评委会评为“年度致敬译者”。

Through the Prism of Russia

Joseph Frank's series of biographies of Dostoyevsky is now recognized as a major achievement of biographies in the twentieth century, perhaps the best of all biographies of Dostoyevsky written in various languages.

In the long process of trying to write this biography, Frank also wrote articles, book reviews, and essays based on his keen insight into Western thought, how it transforms and takes on new meaning and connotations when reflected through the Russian prism. Over the years, this interplay between Russia and the West has fascinated Frank and provided the focus for these papers.

This book brings together twenty essays on the culture that gave birth to Dostoyevsky's great novels and on the critical theories of the Russian formalists of the early twentieth century, whose ideas still shape our view of Russian and world literature. The content of this book includes an evaluation of the works of Jacobson and Bakhtin, as well as of some works related to the development of Russian formalist critical theory and thought. The core of the book is a collection of essays about Dostoyevsky, the circumstances in which he lived and wrote, and his influence on world literature. These include Frank's essay on the new standard that Ralph Ellison benefited from Dostoyevsky and a critical look at Freud's world-famous treatise on the Russian master.

Taken together, these essays demonstrate a certain powerful critical intelligence of our time, dealing with issues that arose out of Frank's study of Dostoevsky, but which are discussed in ways that greatly transcend the novelist's own time and place.

About the author

Joseph Frank (1918-2013)

Professor emeritus of comparative Literature at Princeton University and Professor Emeritus of comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and literature at Stanford University. His five-volume work Dostoevsky (1976-2002) has won the National Book Critics Club Award (biographical), two Christian Goss Awards (from the American College Merit Association), two James Russell Lowell Awards (from the Modern Language Association), the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and other honors. He is also the author of the Expanding Vortex: Crisis and Control in Modern Literature (1963), The Idea of Spatial Form (1991), Between Religion and Reason: Essays on Russian Literature and Culture (2010), Responding to Modernity: Essays on Cultural Politics (2012), and Dostoevsky's Lectures (2020).

Dai graduated from the Department of Optical Engineering of Beijing Institute of Technology (now Beijing Institute of Technology) in 1982. The Collapse of the Third Republic: A Study of the Fall of France in 1940, The Gulag: A History, Dostoyevsky: Seeds of Rebellion, 1821-1849, Dostoyevsky: Years of Suffering, 1850-1859, Dostoyevsky: The Awakening of Freedom, 1860-1865, Dostoyevsky: The Awakening of Freedom, 1860-1865 Extraordinary Times, 1865-1871, Dostoevsky: The Pinnacle of Literature, 1871-1881, The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, Raymond Carver: The Life of a Writer, and The Tragedy of the People: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 (to be published). In 2013, he was named "Tribute Translator of the Year" by the jury of "Top Ten Books of the Year" in Shenzhen Reading Month.