Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Literature
9 Apr 2016
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Him and dostoevsky: the two towering figures of russian literature. Enticed by the west, and eventually turns his back on the west. 1850s: wars in caucasus and crimean areas. War and peace: the extraordinary and horrendous campaign of war of 1812. Handled subjects very well; better than others before him. Shocking and amazingly: a male writer treated the womanly conversations extremely well in anna karenina. How people would talk to one another. He sees in the russian peasant something strong and desirable. He almost wanted to get rid of his novels. Was overly truthful, told absolutely everything that you think and feel. A commitment to complete and total honesty; disaster for the marriage. By the late period of his life we no longer believed he should be writing, was doing it for other reasons. Dostoevsky viewed things from the underneath, tolstoy now tells in omniscient narration from above. Knows what all people are saying and thinking.
