Wasiolek, Edward

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WASIOLEK, Edward

WASIOLEK, Edward. American, b. 1924. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, 1955-. Editorial Board Member, Studies in the Novel, Essays in Literature, Critical Inquiry, The International Fiction Review, and Synthesis. Publications: (with R. Bauer) Nine Soviet Portraits, 1955; Dostoevsky, the Major Fiction, 1964; Tolstoy's Major Fiction, 1978; Russia at the Crossroads, 1994. EDITOR: Crime and Punishment and the Critics, 1961; (and trans.) The Notebooks for Crime and Punishment, 1967; The Brothers Karamazov and the Critics, 1967; The Notes for The Idiot, 1968; The Notebooks for The Possessed, 1968; The Notebooks for a Raw Youth, 1969; (and trans.) The Notebooks for The Brothers Karamazov, 1970; The Gambler and Polina Suslova's Diary, 1972; Critical Essays on Tolstoy, 1986. Address: 1832 Butterfield Ln, Flossmoor, IL 60422, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]