"Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Leo Tolstoy engaged with French literature and culture, Priscilla Meyer contends, to define their own positions as Russian writers with specifically Russian aesthetic and moral values. Rejecting French sensationalism and what they perce…
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"Any reader of Dostoevsky is immediately struck by the importance of religion within the world of his fiction. But it is very difficult to locate a coherent set of religious beliefs within Dostoevsky's works, and to argue that the writer embraced these beliefs. This book provide…
Dostoevsky and Kant: dialogues on ethics
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Dostoevsky and Kant: dialogues on ethics
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"In this book, Evgenia Cherkasova brings the philosopher Kant and the novelist Dostoevsky together in conversations that probe why duty is central to our moral life. She shows that just as Dostoevsky is indebted to Kant, so Kant would profit from the deeply philosophical narrati…
"At first glance, the works of Fedor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) do not appear to have much in common with those of the controversial American writer Henry Miller (1891-1980). However, the influencer of Dostoevsky on Miller was, in fact, enormous and shaped the latter's view of the w…
"Retelling Dostoyevksy studies the Russian author through recreations of his novels by nine twentieth-century writers deeply influenced by him. It examines ten individual novels - two by Joseph Conrad, the others by Richard Wright, Leonid Leonov, Vladimir Nabokov, Bernard Malamu…
While preserving the narrative structure, & combination of biography, intellectual history & literary criticism of the original, this abridged edition places the works of Dostoevsky in personal, historical & above all ideological context, & provides a biography of the author & a…