Dostoevsky's Secrets: Reading Against the Grain Apollonio Carol
Dostoevsky's Secrets: Reading Against the Grain Apollonio Carol When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a "realist in a higher sense," it is because the facts are irrelevant to his truth. This…
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Dostoevsky's Secrets: Reading Against the Grain Apollonio Carol
When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a "realist in a higher sense," it is because the facts are irrelevant to his truth. This sort of reading against the grain is, Apollonio suggests, precisely what these works, with their emphasis on the hidden and the private and their narrative reliance on secrecy and slander, demand. And it is in this spirit that Apollonio approaches Dostoevsky's work, reading through the facts--the text--of his canonical novels for the deeper truth that they distort, mask, and, ultimately, disclose.
Who, she asks, really exploits whom in Poor Folk? In each work Apollonio focuses on one character or theme caught in the compromising, self-serving, or distorting narrative lens. Does "White Nights" ever escape the dream state?
What is actually lost--and what is won--in The Gambler? Is Svidrigailov, of such ill repute in Crime and Punishment,
Against the Grain
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