Historiosophical Aspects of Vyacheslav Ivanov’s Interpretation of “The Legends of the Grand Inquisitor”
Journal: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences eBooks
Year: 2024

The article discusses the notes from Vyach’s Ivanov lecture about “The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” (1938). Using the example of the specifics of Ivanov’s understanding of the historiosophical ideas expressed in the “poem”, the question of the methodological features of Ivanov’s interpretation is explored. It is shown that the lecture notes reflected the approach to the novel “The Brothers Karamazov” as a dialogical work. The principle of dialogism is revealed, on the one hand, thanks to a hi