In:
Dostoevsky and World Culture. Philological journal, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, , No. 3 ( 2020), p. 16-39
Abstract:
The article is dedicated to the analysis of the main concepts in the novel
The Idiot aimed at a better understanding of its most enigmatic scenes. The main word of the novel is “new”, both on a plot level and on a deeper, ontological one. The
novel vividly demonstrates how the manifestation of the “new” is actually connected with emotions that are very different from the ones we could suppose by default; in
fact, it is connected with fear, disgust, a sense of disruption and destruction, radical transition, and unknown. Dostoevsky shows how this kind of human relationship
with the “new” is an effective way to enclose man in the narrow prison of earthly life, denying immortality and resurrection; it also encloses man in the narrow prison of
social prejudices, denying the possibility for free growth of his humanity. The analysis focuses on the first scene at the Epanchyns’, the story about the soldier Kolpakov (the
only thing we know about the father of the prince), and Ippolit’s dream about the non-scorpion and the Newfoundland dog Norma.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2619-0311
Uniform Title:
Смерть, новая земля и новая природа
в романе Ф.М. Достоевского «Идиот»
DOI:
10.22455/2619-0311-2020-3
DOI:
10.22455/2619-0311-2020-3-16-39
Language:
Russian
Publisher:
A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Publication Date:
2020
detail.hit.zdb_id:
3057754-8
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