I.A. Krylov’s “Fables” in F.M. Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot [PDF]
The article explores the presence of I.A. Krylov’s “Fables” as a book within a book in F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot, making the first approaches to the development of the topic “Dostoevsky and Krylov,” which practically did not attract the attention
Nikolay N. Podosokorsky
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Nikolay Karamzin’s History in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot [PDF]
The article explores the influence of Nikolay Karamzin’s History of the Russian State (1818–1829) on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot (1868–1869). Karamzin’s historical and literary work significantly shaped Dostoevsky’s worldview from childhood and ...
Nikolay N. Podosokorsky
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Der Dichter als Idiot – Zur Poetik des Außenseiters in Botho Strauß’ «Lichter des Toren»
Being an idiot isn’t that bad. Although persons who are called idiots live a life on the margins of society, they possess a special gift of insight and sensitivity, as well as a knowledge of hidden truths and experiences.
Bernhard Winkler
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Prince Myshkin’s Bundle: the Function of a Symbolic Detailin Dostoevsky’s Novel Тhe Idiot [PDF]
The article deals with the artistic function of the symbolic detail in F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot. Such a meaning-forming symbolic detail, a thingthrough which reveals not only the essence of the personality of the protagonist, butalso the ...
Olga Y. Yuryeva
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The Concept of “Book” in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot [PDF]
The article is intended as part of the project “The Role and the Image of Books in F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot.” Rather than analyzing a particular book, the author focuses on the concept of “book” itself in the novel: where and how it appears and ...
Caterina Corbella
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Death, New Land, and New Nature in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot [PDF]
The article is dedicated to the analysis of the main concepts in the novel The Idiot aimed at a better understanding of its most enigmatic scenes. The main word of the novel is “new”, both on a plot level and on a deeper, ontological one.
Tatiana A. Kasatkina
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From a Rhetoric of tapeinosis and humilitas through the Tradition of Holy Fools to Dostoevsky’s Christopoetics (The Idiot) [PDF]
The Christological hymn included in Apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians (2,5-11) applies two different Greek verbs in connection to the concept of Christ’s self-humiliation: kenosis and tapeinosis.
Dirk Uffelmann
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Rerproducing the Voice of Dostoevsky-Narrator in Spanish: Translator’s Notes [PDF]
The voice of Dostoevsky-narrator is always live and theatrical. We can hear his voice that sounds spontaneously in the present tense. We perceive his changing timber, we can see that the writer strives to be scrupulous in passing on to the reader every ...
Omar Lobos
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Romano Guardini: The Presence of Christ in Dostoevsky’s Text [PDF]
The paper is dedicated to the reception of Dostoevsky’s work by the Catholic theologian Romano Guardini. After a brief review of the development of his interest on Dostoevsky, the paper identifies in the idea of polar opposition and in the centrality of ...
Caterina Corbella
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Press in the Works of Russian Literature
Russian classical literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries constitutes the whole with the finest Russian journalism of the same period. Almost all famous authors started their careers by releasing their first works of literature in magazines and ...
N. V. Shevtsov, E. E. Naumova
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