Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov. By W.J. Leatherbarrow. Landmarks of World Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiv. 115 pp. Chronology. $29.95, hard bound; $10.95, paper.

Slavic Review ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 632-633
Author(s):  
Victor Terras
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
The Brothers Karamazov ◽  
Brothers Karamazov

Dostoevsky, Confession, and the Evolutionary Origins of Conscience

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Tom Dolack
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Group Norms ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Evolutionary Origins ◽  
The Brothers Karamazov ◽  
Brothers Karamazov

Abstract Fyodor Dostoevsky is renowned as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature, but what we know about the origins and the workings of the human mind has changed drastically since the late nineteenth century. If Dostoevsky was such a sensitive reader of the human condition, do his insights hold up to modern research? To judge just by the issue of the psychology of confession, the answer appears to be: yes. The work of Michael Tomasello indicates that the human conscience evolved in order to make people obey group norms. From this I draw the proposition that confession should be best directed to the group as a whole, and not to an individual. Judging by Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment and an assortment of characters in The Brothers Karamazov, this appears to be exactly how confession works in Dostoevsky's novels: sin is against all, so forgiveness must be from all.

scholarly journals Intertekstualiteit en die Bose in Kroniek van Perdepoort (Anna M. Louw)

Literator ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
E. Linde ◽  
D. H. Steenberg
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Sound And The Fury ◽  
The Brothers Karamazov ◽  
Constituent Element ◽  
Similar Theme ◽  
Brothers Karamazov ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Devil

In Anna M. Louw’s novel Kroniek van Perdepoort the primal conflict between good and evil is an important constituent element. Well-known authors in world literature have been fascinated by this problem, and it is an enriching experience to bring together allusions and to investigate points of contact with authors such as Feodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann. William Faulkner and Patrick White. In Kroniek van Perdepoort there is a meeting between Klaas Kamer and the devil. Similarities between this meeting and similar meetings in Dr Faustus (Thomas Mann) and The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky) are pointed out.Subsequently the portrayal of sin in Kroniek van Perdepoort is compared with Faulkner’s novels The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!, in which a similar theme is represented.Patrick White is also an author of religious literature to whom Anna M. Louw is attracted by her own admission. His novels. The solid Mandala and Riders in the Chariot are studied, and similarities with Kroniek van Perdepoort indicated.

Between Nihilism and Transcendence: Camus's Dialogue with Dostoevsky

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-242
Author(s):  
Sean Illing
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
The Brothers Karamazov ◽  
Brothers Karamazov ◽  
Practical Implications

AbstractThis article examines the influence of Fyodor Dostoevsky on Albert Camus's political philosophy of revolt. The aim is to clarify Camus's reactions to the problems of absurdity, nihilism, and transcendence through an analysis of his literary and philosophical engagement with Dostoevsky. I make three related claims. First, I claim that Camus's philosophy of revolt is informed in crucial ways by Dostoevsky's accounts of religious transcendence and political nihilism. Second, that Camus's conceptualization of the tension between nihilism and transcendence corresponds to and is personified by the dialogue between Ivan Karamazov and Father Zossima in Dostoevsky'sThe Brothers Karamazov. Finally, that Camus uses his novelThe Plagueto bridge the moral and metaphysical divide between these two characters. In particular, I argue that Camus offers a distinct vision of revolt inThe Plague, which clarifies both the practical implications of revolt and his philosophical rejoinder to Dostoevsky.

scholarly journals The Last Newspaper Fyodor Dostoevsky Read (Based on the Collections of Vladimir Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature)

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-218
Author(s):  
Pavel E. Fokin
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
The Brothers Karamazov ◽  
State Museum ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fatal Illness ◽  
Brothers Karamazov ◽  
New Time

Throughout Dostoevsky's life, reading newspapers was one of the most important sources of his inspiration. Reading newspapers, Dostoevsky drew on real factual material that reflected both the characteristic phenomens of the postreform Russian reality and the most incredible “adventures” of lost human souls and hearts. Daily acquaintance with the latest news from Russian and world life was an essential necessity for Dostoevsky. Even while abroad, he regularly visited libraries to read the most recent Russian newspapers. Journalism was inherent in his type of thinking and personality. He began his literary career as a newspaper feuilletonist; in 1873–1874, he edited the Grazhdanin (The Citizen) weekly; in1876–1877, his monojournal A Writer's Diary was focused on Russian and European periodicals. In 1881, having completed his novel The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky decided to resume the publication of A Writer's Diary. He prepared only one issue which came out on the day of his funeral. The manuscript collection of the Vladimir Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature contains Anna Dostoevskaya’s collection that includes a memorial copy of the last newspaper read by Dostoevsky on the eve of his fatal illness, the Novoe Vremya (The New Time) newspaper, No. 1764 dated January 25 (February 6) 1881. This item is a valuable biographical material and allows one to put additional touches on the picture of Dostoevsky's intellectual life of his last days. The article provides an overview of the newspaper’s contents contextualized within Dostoevsky's spiritual, political, and aesthetic interests and particularly within the articles included in the first issue of The Diary of a Writer for 1881 and the preparatory materials for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov

1994 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curt Whitcomb ◽  
W.J. Leatherbarrow
Keyword(s):  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
The Brothers Karamazov ◽  
Brothers Karamazov

Philosophical Anthropology and Dostoevsky's “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor”

1964 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellis Sandoz
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Great Work ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
The Brothers Karamazov ◽  
Grand Inquisitor ◽  
Brothers Karamazov

The political thought of Fyodor Dostoevsky grows out of his opposition to nihilism, atheistic humanism, and socialism in much the same way as the philosophy of Plato grew out of his opposition to the sophists. Indeed, the parallel of Dostoevsky's thought with that of Plato is to be seen in some further aspects of this fundamental opposition. Both the Russian master of the novel and the Hellenic founder of political science confronted adversaries for whom “Man is the measure of all things” and each based his opposition on the principle “God is the Measure,” to use Plato's formulation. This declaration, echoing like a thunderclap across more than twenty centuries of history, found consummate expression in the last great work of each writer: the Laws and The Brothers Karamazov.

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