On Joseph Frank [by Mark]

I first read about Joseph Frank's Lectures on Dostoevsky at Cynthia Haven's blog at Stanford University.  You can read her tribute to Frank here.

An excerpt: What intrigued Frank about the Russian author? “The problems he writes about are really eternal in Western civilization,” he said. “He makes the fundamental issues of belief and the religious problems exciting – and contemporary. He poses questions in such a way that, whether you agree or not, it makes you think about them. That’s why I was so much taken with him. He writes exciting novels, with detective techniques – and raises it to such a level! The mystery of it is the mystery of the meaning of life.”‘