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DOSTOEVSKY ON THE THRESHOLD OF OTHER WORLDS D ostoevsky O T n the hreshold O W of ther orlds Essays in H o n o u r o f Ma l c o lm V J o n e s Edited by Sarah Young and Lesley Milne Bramcote Press Ilkeston, Derbyshire 2006 © Sarah Young and Lesley Milne and authors of signed contributions 2006 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of the whole or any part of this publication may be made without written permission. First published 2006 by Bramcote Press, 81 Rayneham Road, ILKESTON, Derbyshire DE7 8RJ, United Kingdom Printed in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd., Kings Lynn ISBN 1 900405 13 X CONTENTS Contributors vii Note on Transliteration and References xii Acknowledgements xii Introduction: Dostoevsky Today xiii Sârah Young Part I: Mythos Genres of Novel and Tale in Dostoevsky’s Works 3 Rudolf Neuhäuser Raskolnikov’s Wardrobe: Dostoevsky’s Use of Vestimentary Markers for Literary Communication in Crime and Punishment 14 Boris Christa Dostoevsky and Pushkin: Petersburg motifs in Crime and Punishment 21 Valentina Vetlovskaia Reading The Gambler as Roulettenburg 40 Erik Egeberg Finding Form for Chaos: Dostoevsky’s The Adolescent and Akhmatova’s Poem Without a Hero 46 Alexandra Harrington Whence Came Ivan Karamazov’s Nightmare? (Correspondence and Literary Creation) 64 Jacques Catteau Part II: Dialogue Apollon Maikov and the Cult of the Leader 75 Richard Peace Dostoevsky, ‘Bobok’, Pierre Bobo and Boborykin 84 John McNair Public Education in England in the Pages of The Citizen (1873-1874) during Dostoevsky’s Editorship 98 Irene Zohrab Dialogues with Dostoevsky in Tolstoy’s Resurrection 110 Sarah Huspith Dostoevsky in the lectures and conversations of Merab Mamardashvili 120 Vladimir Tunimanov ‘A More Important Connection than People Think’: Dostoevsky and Russian Music 137 Arnold McMillin Part III: Text and Reader The Siuzhet of Part I of Crime and Punishment 153 Robert Belknap Of Shame and Human Bondage: Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground 157 Deborah Martinsen Narrative Technique as ‘Maieutics’: Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment 170 Horst-Jürgen Gerigk Crime and Punishment in the Classroom: The Elephant in the Garden 175 Robin Feuer Miller Part IV: Religion Dostoevsky on Children in the New Testament 189 Boris Tikhomirov Dostoevsky and Music 207 Diane Oenning Thompson Buddhism in Dostoevsky: Prince Myshkin and the True Light of Being 220 Sarah Young ‘The Hero’s Mistake’ as a Special Device in Dostoevsky’s Works 230 Tatiana Kasatkina Dostoevsky’s Fantastic Pages 239 Vladimir Zakharov Afterword 255 Lesley Milne Bibliography of Malcolm Jones’s Publications 259 Index 269 VI CONTRIBUTORS Robert L Belknap is Professor Emeritus of Russian at Columbia University in New York. He was educated at Princeton University, The University of Paris, Columbia University, and Leningrad (now St Petersburg) State University. He is the author of The Structure of The Brothers Karamazov, The Genesis of The Brothers Karamazov, and other studies of Russian literature or of American educational practice. Jacques Catteau is Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature at Paris-Sorbonne and editor of La Revue des études slaves. Translator of Babel, Bely, Pilnyak and Zamyatin, among others, he was also co-editor from 1967 to 2000 of the Slavica collections for L’Age d’Homme. The author of numerous studies on Dostoevsky, he edited Dostoïevski (Cahier de ГНете, 1973) and Dostoïevski (Verdier, 1983). His book La Création littéraire chez Dostoïevski (IES, 1978) was awarded the Grand Prix de la Critique littéraire in 1979, and was translated into English as Dostoyevsky and the Process of Literary Creation (Cambridge University Press, 1988), while his edition of Dostoevsky’s correspondence (3 vols, Bartillat, 1998-2003) won the Prix Sévigné de la correspondance 1999. Boris Christa is Emeritus Professor of Russian and Honorary Research Consultant at the University of Queensland, Australia. His publications include a book and many articles on Andrei Bely and Russian symbolism. Recently he has written extensively on aspects of pragmatic semiotics, focusing on the literary use of vestimentary markers especially by Dostoevsky. Erik Egeberg is Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Tromso, Norway. His research has focused on both Russian poetry (including Pushkin, Lermontov, Fet and Brodsky), and prose. In addition to writing a book and numerous articles on Dostoevsky, he was from 1989 to 2001 executive secretary of the International Dostoevsky Society, and from 1991 to 2000 was also editor-in-chief of the journal Scando-Slavica. He has translated major works of Russian literature, by Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bely, Platonov and Bulgakov, and poetry from Lomonosov to Aigi. Horst-Jürgen Gerigk was born in Berlin in 1937, and has been Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Heidelberg since 1974. His main fields of study are Russian, German and American Literature. In 1995 his monograph Die Russen in Amerika appeared. From 1998 to 2004 he was President of the International Dostoevsky Society, and is Managing Editor of Dostoevsky Studies, New Series. vu Alexandra Harrington completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Nottingham, and is now Lecturer in Russian in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham. Her primary research interest is twentieth-century Russian poetry. Her study of Akhmatova, Living in Different Mirrors: The Modernist and Postmodernist Incarnations of Anna Akhmatova, is currently in press and due to be published in 2006 by Anthem Press. Sarah Hudspith is Lecturer in Russian at The University of Leeds. A graduate of the University of Exeter, she received her PhD from the University of Sheffield in September 2000. She specializes in nineteenth-century Russian literature, particularly in the works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, and Russian religious thought. She is the author of Dostoevsky and the Idea of Russianness: A New Perspectiveon Unity and Brotherhood (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004). Tatiana Alexandrovna Kasatkina is Professor in the Faculty of the Theory and History of Culture at RGU nefti i gaza im. I M Gubkina, a director of research in the Department of Theory at the Institute of World Literature and chair of IMLI RAN’s Commission for the study of the works of F M Dostoevsky. She is the author of Kharakterologiia Dostoevskogo (Moscow, 1996) and О tvoriashchei prirode slova: Ontologichnost’ slova v tvorchestve F M Dostoevskogo как osnova ‘realizma v vysshem smysle’ (Moscow, 2004), and around 130 scholarly articles, and compiler, editor and author of the introductory articles and commentaries to the Collected Works of Dostoevsky (9 vols, Moscow 2003-2004). Arnold McMillin, Professor of Russian Literature in the University of London, has written on Russian literature, Belarusian language and literature, and Russian music. Publications include: The Vocabulary of the Byelorussian Literary Language in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1973); A History of Byelorussian Literature from Its Origins to the Present Day (Giessen, 1977); Belarusian Literature in the 1950s and 1960s: Release and Renewal (Cologne etc., 1999); Belarusian Literature of the Diaspora (Birmingham, 2002), the latter two translated into Belarusian in 2001 and 2004 respectively. John McNair heads the Russian programme in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. He obtained his PhD in Russian literature at the University of Edinburgh, and held teaching appointments at the University of Ulster and Trinity College, Dublin before moving to Australia in 1983. His publications include Russia and the Fifth Continent: Aspects of Russian-Australian Relations (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1992) and At Home with the Gentry: A Victorian English Lady’s Diary of Russian Country Life (Nottingham: Bramcote Press, 1998), as well as numerous articles on nineteenth-century Russian literature. He is currently completing a literary biography of Boborykin and a critical anthology of Australian travel writing on Soviet Russia. Deborah A Martinsen, Adjunct Associate Professor of Slavic, is Acting Director of the Core Curriculum at Columbia University and Executive Secretary of the Vlll North American Dostoevsky Society. She is author of Surprised by Shame: Dostoevsky’s Liars and Narrative Exposure (2003) and editor of Literary Journals in Imperial Russia (1997). Robin Feuer Miller is the author of Dostoevsky and Tl\e Idiot: Author, Narrator and Reader and The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel. She has also written on other nineteenth century Russian and European writers and is the editor of Critical Essays on Dostoevsky. Her most recent work includes two со-edited volumes, Kathryn В Feuer’s Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace (with Donna Tussing Orwin) and The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel (with Malcolm Jones). She is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University, where she teaches Russian and Comparative Literature. Lesley Milne is Head of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Nottingham. Her publications include the monographs The Master and Margarita: A Comedy of Victory (Birmingham Slavonic Monographs, 1977), Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography (Cambridge University Press, 1990), Zoshchenko and the Ilf-Petrov Partnership: How They Laughed (Birmingham Slavonic Monographs, 2003). She is editor of the volumes Bulgakov: The Novelist-Playwright (Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995) and Reflective Laughter: Aspects of Humour in Russian Culture (Anthem Press, 2004). Rudolf Neuhäuser, Professor Emeritus, completed his PhD at the University of Vienna in 1956. He taught in North America 1961-1975, becoming Full Professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Professor of Slavic Studies at Klagenfurt University, Austria (1975-2001), he was a founder member of the International Dostoevsky Society, President 1989-1995 (Honorary President since 1998), and editor of its publications 1971-1996. He has held guest professorships at the Universities of Alberta, Cologne and Ljubljana. Elected Corresponding Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and the Arts in 1995, until 1996 he was chairman of the Austrian Association of Slavists and Austrian Representative on the International Committee of Slavists. His interests include Russian literature eighteenth-twentiethcenturies, South Slavic literatures, comparative literature and literary theory. He has published several books, including Towards the Romantic Age (The Hague, 1974), Das Frühwerk Dostoevskijs (Heidelberg, 1979), and F MDostoevski]': Die Grossen Romane und Erzählungen (Vienna, 1993), and around 140 articles, including ‘Zur Frage des literarischen Biedermeiers in Russland’ (1982), ‘Cechov und das Kierke gaard'sehe Paradigma’ (1997), and ‘Die Weitsicht Dostojevskijs und das heutige Russland’ (2003). Richard Peace studied at Oxford University before lecturing at the University of Bristol (1963-1975). He was Professor at the University of Hull, 1975-1984 (Dean of Arts 1983-1984), and at Bristol 1984-1994. He has been Professor Emeritus at the University of Bristol since 1994. He was President of BUAS 1977-1980. His major publications are: Dostoyevsky: An Examination of the Major Novels (Cambridge University Press, 1971); The Enigma of Gogol: An IX
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