SLAVIC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Defamiliarization

• School: Northwestern University
• Department: Slavic Languages & Literature
• Course: SLAVIC 210
• Professor: Morson Saul

Document Summary

Both of his parents died early in his life - raised by an aunt. Wrote his first part fiction (three parts) childhood, boyhood, adolescence. Began keeping a diary (an obsession for the rest of his life) Enrolled again and this time in the faculty of law. Defamiliarization - taking the familiar and making it strange. Tolstoy of ak is different than tolstoy of later years (he experienced a conversion) Writes a lot of diaries - his wife finds them. Diary for myself alone - last diary he writes. Keeps it in the toe of his boot and his wife finds it. Life is not lives only in moments of crisis. What life is all about, is the ordinary events.