Dostoevsky: the major fiction
Publisher: M.I.T. Press
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Critique et interprétation; Technique; Criticism and interpretation; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 225-248.
Table of contents: title: The early works; title: The Petrashevsky circle and The house of the dead; title: Chernyshevsky and The insulted and the injured; title: Notes from the underground and Dostoevsky's moral dialectic; title: Crime and punishment; title: The idiot; title: The possessed; title: The adolescent and The dream of the rediculous man; title: The Brothers Karamazov.