Title: Dostoevsky: the major fiction.
Authors: Wasiolek, Edward.; Wasiolek, Edward,
Publisher: M.I.T. Press
Year: 1964
Subjects: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Criticism and interpretation.; Fiction Technique
Abstract: In the past, critics have considered Dostoevsky an artist, thinker or psychologist, according to their own temperment. Now, with the appearance of Dostoevsky: The Major Fiction, it is at last possible to see him whole - for in this close, critical reading of Dostoevsky's major works the aesthetic, ideological, and psycholgical factors are as thoroughly interwoven and interdependant as they are in the novels themselves.
Contents: The early works -- The Petrashevsky circle and The house of the dead -- Chernyshevsky and The insulted and the injured -- Notes from the underground and Dostoevsky's moral dialectic -- Crime and punishment -- The idiot -- The possessed -- The adolescent and The dream of the ridiculous man -- The Brothers Karamazov.