_Conversations with Dostoevsky_ presents a series of fictional
conversations taking place between November 2018 and Spring 2019 in
the narrator's Glasgow apartment and elsewhere in the city. At the
beginning of the conversations, the narrator has been reading
Dostoevsky's story A Gentle Spirit, which concludes with a dramatic
statement of protest atheism. This statement suggests that love is not
possible in a purely mechanical universe in which all living beings
are condemned to death and ultimate extinction. The conversations
spell out Dostoevsky's response to this view and his advocacy of faith
in God, Christ, and immortality. The themes discussed include suicide,
truth and lies, guilt, determinism, literature, the Bible, Mary,
Christ, Dostoevsky and film, 'the woman question', nationalism, war,
the Church, the Jewish question, immortality, and God. In addition to
conversations between the narrator and Dostoevsky, we drop in on a
dinner party at which Dostoevsky is discussed from various points of
view and in another conversation Dostoevsky is joined by the
philosopher Vladimir Solovyov to discuss nationalism, the Church, and
life. We also attend a seminar on 'Dostoevsky, Anti-Semitism, and
Nazism', and visit Glasgow's Necropolis on Easter Eve. The
conversations in the first part of the volume are accompanied by a
series of commentaries in a second part, which contextualize the
issues discussed in the conversations with references to his novels,
journalism, letters, and notebooks as well as engaging the relevant
critical literature.
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On God, Russia, Literature, and Life
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ISBN
9780198881568
Publisert
2024
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Vendor
OUP Oxford
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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