The Realization of the Collective Self
The Rebirth of Religious Autobiography in Dostoevskii's Zapiski iz Mertvogo Doma
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4208064 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary Rosenshield (University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 317-327 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2500207 |
| OpenAlex | W2325561155 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
Fedor Dostoevskii was at least as great and ingenious a renovator of old forms as he was a creator of the revolutionary new form, the polyphonic novel. However fond Dostoevskii may have been of old, often "outdated" modes and genres, he never accepted or used them as he found them; rather he seems to have been attracted to them primarily for the possibilities they offered for literary experimentation. Often overlooked, at least in this regard, is Dostoevskii's great semiautobiographical novel Zapiski iz Mertvogo doma. Perhaps in no other work did Dostoevskii perform as daring a literary experiment in the renewal of an "outmoded" genre-in this case, the religious autobiography. Lev Tolstoi, who himself, according to Prince Dmitrii Mirsky, years later wrote a confession on a par with the Book of Job, thought Zapiski the best thing that Dostoevskii ever did, and one of the greatest Christian works of its time. Uplifting, universal, and "infectious," Zapiski iz Mertvogo doma met all of Tolstoi's criteria for great art
Art · Biography · Confession (law · Literary criticism · Literature · Polyphony · Predestination · Theology · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Education, Literature, Philosophy Research · History · Philosophy · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
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| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |