Dostoevsky: New Perspectives

DOSTOEVSKY NEW PERSPECTIVES Edited by Robert Louis Jackson Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, N J . 07632 Library o f Congress C ataloging in P ublication D ata Main entry under title: Dostoevsky: new perspectives. (Twentieth century views) “A Spectrum Book.” Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 1621-1861—Criticism and interpretation—Addresses, essays, lectures. 1. Jackson, Robert Louis. II. Series. PG3328.Z6D629 1984 891.73'S 83-17737 ISBN 0-13-218586-5 ISBN 0-13-218578-4 (pbk.) To the memory o f my mother, Ella Fred Jackson Quotations from The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky are from Dostoyevsky’s Notesfrom the UndergroundlThe Double, translated by Jessie Coulson (Penguin Classics, 1972), copyright ©Jessie Coulson, 1972. They are reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. Quotations from Dostoyevsky’s The Devils—translated by David Magarshack (Penguin Classics, revised edition. 1971), copyright © David Magarshack, 1953, 1971—are re­ printed by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. Quotations from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky are from the Random House, Inc., edition, which was translated by Constance Garnett. Editorial/production supervision by Elizabeth Toijussen Wood engraving © 1984 by Vivian Berger Manufacturing buyer: Edward J. Ellis © 1984 by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. A SPECTRUM BOOK. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN D-13-21fl5ab-5 ISBN 0-13-51fi57fl-4 {PBK.} P r e n t ic e - H a l l I n t e r n a t i o n a l , I n c . (London) P r e n t ic e - H a l l o f A u s t r a l i a P t y . L i m i t e d P r e n t ic e - H a l l C a n a d a I n c . (Sydney) (Toronto) P r e n t ic e - H a l l o f I n d i a P r i v a t e L i m i t e d P r e n t ic e - H a l l o f J a p a n , I n c . (New Delhi) (Tokyo) (Singapore) (Wellington, New Zealand) d o B r a s il L t d a . (Rio de Janeiro) P r e n t ic e - H a l l o f S o u t h e a s t A s i a P t e . L t d . W h it e h a l l B o o k s L im it e d E d it o r a P r e n t ic e - H a l l Contents Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson 1 The Dismantled Consciousness: An Analysis of The Double by Mikhail M. Bakhtin 19 The Petersburg Feuilletons by Joseph Frank 35 Reading Between the Genres: Dostoevsky’s Diary of a Writer as Metafiction by Gary Saul Morson 56 Aristotelian Movement and Design in Part Two of Notes from the Underground by Robert Louis Jackson 66 Dostoevsky and Rousseau: The Morality of Confession Reconsidered by Robin Feuer Miller 82 Raskolnikov’s City and the Napoleonic Plan by Adele Lindenmeyr 99 Dostoevsky: The Idea of The Gambler by D. S. Savage 111 The Gaps in Christology:. The idiot .by -Michael Holquist 126 The Narrator in The Devils by V. A. Tunfmanov 145 Stepan Verkhovensky and the Shaping Dialectic of Dostoevsky’s Devils by Gordon Livermore 176 The Art of Fiction as a Theme in The Brothers Karamazov by Victor Terras 193 Alyosha Karamazov and the Hagiographie Hero by Valentina A. Vetlovskaya 206 Memory in The Brothers Karamazov by Robert L. Belknap 227 The Paradox of the Legend of the Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov by Jacques Catteau 243 Chronology of Important Dates Notes on the Editor and Authors Selected Studies on Dostoevsky Index 255 257 259 263 Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson The French critic E. Halpe'rine-Kamin