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Lev

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« on: April 24, 2004, 09:18:51 AM »
What (if any) Dostoyevsky criticism do you guys like? I recently checked out something by Andre Gide and some collected essays but I was expecting a lot more (though Gide did have some interesting points). Suggestions?
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« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2004, 12:10:51 PM »
I found Philiph Rahv and his critical essays really interesting...he didn't solely critique D's works, and I doubt that he is in print anymore. I have a book called "Image and Idea" where, among other great essays, there are two on The Devils and one on Crime and Punishment.

The only thing I do not recommend you read is any criticism by Nabokov; he hated D and it is reflected in is criticism...he thought that Notes from Underground are the worst piece of garbage....I really don't like Nabokov as a person, I've read his "Lectures on Literature" and found him to be an extremely pompous and stuck up person - the underground man would surely hate him Smiley
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« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2004, 06:56:53 PM »
Okay, thanks... I won't even bother with Nabokov then... (a stuck-up person in the position of "critic" -- not a good combination). I wish there was more on the internet though because these books are so hard to find sometimes... but I'll try it.
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« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2004, 07:22:38 PM »
I like Mikhail Bakhtin but I can't claim to have read much by him.  He is a great critical theorist though and I would definitely recommend checking him out!
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« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2004, 08:00:43 PM »
>> I like Mikhail Bakhtin

agreed...he is great to read because he was D's contemporary, so his essays give a lot of background as well - esspecialy on the Devils.
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« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2004, 12:08:11 PM »
Great... That should be easy to find!  
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« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2004, 07:03:14 PM »
A short list:

Michael Holquist - Dostoevsky and the Novel
Jean Weisgerber - Faulkner and Dostoevsky - Influence & Confluence
Robert L. Jackson - The Art of Dostoevsky: Deliriums and Nocturnes
Rudolf E. Dietze - Ralph Ellison: The Genesis of an Artist (contains a chapter on "Notes from the Underground", which served as an intertext for Ellison's masterpiece "Invisible Man"; it might be difficult to find this book, since it's a dissertation and hardly available in normal bookstores)
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« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2004, 07:09:58 PM »
Thanks, Rinehart -- and welcome! I was planning to get around to some more criticism after (hopefully) I finish reading all of his stuff Cheesy. It's too bad these books are so hard to get your hands on... but I will certainly refer back here when the time comes. Thanks again for your help.
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« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2004, 08:41:56 AM »
Yes, and it may be funner to do it this way, too.
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