Conversations with Dostoevsky: On God, Russia, Literature, and Life

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Conversations with Dostoevsky: On God, Russia, Literature, and Life
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Preface
Contents
Dedication
PART ONE: THE CONVERSATIONS
	First Conversation: Part One: Beneath a Dead Sun
		How It All Began
		What Is Truth?
	First Conversation: Part Two: Guilty!
		Guilty?
		Pro et Contra
	Second Conversation: Good Books
		Dickens & Co.
		The Bible
	Third Conversation: At a Dinner Party
		Talking about Dostoevsky
		In the Pantry
		Colours
		‘The Woman Question’
	Fourth Conversation: Christmas Cards
		A Madonna
		Humility
		Man-Godand God-Man
		Christmas Trees
		Christ
	Fifth Conversation: Light from the East
		In the Park
		War and Peace
		Brotherhood
		A New Arrival
		The Church
		Life
	Sixth Conversation: The Jewish Question
		An Anti-Semite?
		The Paper
		Discussion
		‘I’m Not Going to Defend Myself’
	Seventh Conversation: We Are All Here
		In the Garden of Remembrance
		Shedding the Ego
		In Christ’s Light
		God
	Epilogue
	Postscript
PART TWO: COMMENTARY
	Introduction
		Abbreviations to Works by Dostoevsky
		Works in Russian
		Works in English
	Commentary on the First Conversation, Part One
		Introduction
		1. The Metaphysics of Suicide
		2. Life beyond Death?
		3. Lies, Literature, and Sin
		Additional Points
	Commentary on the First Conversation, Part Two
		1. Guilt
		2. Pro et Contra
	Commentary on the Second Conversation
		1. The Bible
		2. Suffering
		3. Dostoevsky’s Christ
		Additional Points
	Commentary on the Third Conversation
		1. Dostoevsky in Film
		2. Dostoevsky and Existentialism
		3. The ‘Woman Question’
		Additional Points
	Commentary on the Fourth Conversation
		1. The Madonna
		2. Self-Deificationand Divine Self-Emptying
		3. Christ’s Christmas Tree
		Additional Points
	Commentary on the Fifth Conversation
		1. Dostoevsky’s Politics (I)
		2. Vladimir Solovyov
		3. Living Life
		Additional Points
	Commentary on the Sixth Conversation
		1. The Jewish Question
		2. Dostoevsky’s Politics (II)
		Additional Points
	Commentary on the Seventh Conversation
		1. The Poetics of Memory
		Additional Points
	Commentary on the Epilogue and Postscript
		Dostoevsky’s Politics (III)
Bibliography
	Works by Dostoevsky
	Works on Dostoevsky
	Other Works Cited
Index