Dialogues with Dostoevsky: The Overwhilming Questions

Contents......Page 8
Introduction: Dostoevsky in Movement......Page 12
1 The Ethics of Vision I: Turgenev’s “Execution of Tropmann” and Dostoevsky’s View of the Matter......Page 40
2 The Ethics of Vision II: The Tolstoyan Synthesis......Page 66
3 The Ethics of Vision III: The Punishment of the Tramp Prokhorov in Chekhov’s The Island of Sakhalin......Page 86
4 Dostoevsky in Chekhovs Garden of Eden “Because of Little Apples”......Page 94
5 A View from the Underground: On Nikolai Nikolaevich Strakhov’s Letter About His Good Friend Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky and on Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy’s Cautious Response to It......Page 115
6 In the Interests of Social Pedagogy: Gorky’s Polemic Against the Staging of The Devils in 1913 and the Aftermath in 1917......Page 132
7 Chateaubriand and Dostoevsky: Elective Affinities......Page 145
8 Dostoevsky and the Marquis de Sade: The Final Encounter......Page 155
9 The Root and the Flower: Dostoevsky and Turgenev, a Comparative Aesthetic......Page 173
10 Unbearable Questions: Two Views of Gogol and the Critical Synthesis......Page 199
11 In the Darkness of the Night: Tolstoys Kreutzer Sonata and Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground......Page 219
12 States of Ambiguity: Early Shakespeare and Late Dostoevsky, the Two Ivans......Page 239
13 Counterpoint: Nietzsche and Dostoevsky......Page 248
14 Vision in His Soul: Vyacheslav I. Ivanovs Dostoevsky......Page 262
15 Bakhtins Poetics of Dostoevsky and Dostoevsky's “Declaration of Religious Faith”......Page 280
16 Last Stop: Virtue and Immortality in The Brothers Karamazov......Page 304
Introduction......Page 316
Chapter 1......Page 318
Chapter 2......Page 320
Chapter 3......Page 321
Chapter 5......Page 322
Chapter 6......Page 326
Chapter 7......Page 327
Chapter 8......Page 328
Chapter 9......Page 331
Chapter 10......Page 335
Chapter 11......Page 336
Chapter 12......Page 338
Chapter 13......Page 339
Chapter 14......Page 341
Chapter 15......Page 343
Chapter 16......Page 346
Index......Page 348