Квир-провал князя Мышкинa:(не)правильные толкования маскулинности в «Идиоте» Ф.М. Достоевского
Journal: Bristol Research (University of Bristol)
Year: 2019

This article uses queer theory to shed new light on the long-standing critical debates around Prince Myshkin, the hero of Fedor Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot. The current controversy centres around why Dostoevsky, in setting out to depict a “wholly good man,” ended up creating a protagonist who causes hurt and suffering to those around him and who ultimately reverts to idiocy at the end of the novel. While Nina Pelikan Straus dismisses The Idiot as Dostoevsky’s “exploded fantasy that an asexual P