Dostoevsky’s ‘Brothers Karamazov’

Art, Creativity, and Spirituality


1. Edition, 2010
232 Pages

ISBN: 978-3-8253-5811-2
Product: Book
Edition: Hardcover
Subject: Slavistik
Series: Beiträge zur slavischen Philologie, Volume No.: 16
Available: 05.11.2010

Keywords: Religiösität /Dostojewskij, Spiritualität /Dostojewskij, Ethik /Dostojewskij, Dostojewskij, Fjodor M, Geschichtsbilder /Dostojewskij, Russisch-orthodoxe Kirche


This volume combines essays by well-established scholars of Dostoevsky with those by newer voices; it brings together authors from several different countries (France, Germany, USA, Russia, England) representing varying traditions of approaching Dostoevsky’s novels; most importantly, however, it is the first collection that crosses the often too rigid lines between philosophy and literature. While there have been a number of attempts to re-establish a significant dialogue between literature and philosophy in recent years, virtually no cross-disciplinary studies of Dostoevsky have been attempted. This absence of interdisciplinary literature is remarkable given that Dostoevsky is often acknowledged to be a leading ‘novelist of ideas.’ There is no better place to begin such a collaborative effort than Dostoevsky’s last novel, ‘The Brothers Karamazov’, which Freud called “the greatest novel ever written.”

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Nicholas Tyrras in: Canadian Slavonic Papers, 54.1-2 (2012), 232f

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Marta Wilkinson in: The Russian Review, Vol. 73 (2014), No. 4, 620

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Andreas Guski in: osteuropa, [63].10 (2013), 226ff

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Nina Perlina in: Slavic Review, Vol. 71.1 (2012), 201f

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Rudolf Neuhäuser in: Dostoevsky Studies, Vol. XV (2011), 203ff