Dostojevski
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- Author: Gide Andre
- Publisher: Arete
- Availability: Available
- Condition: New book
- Code: 81995
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Dostojevski
Gide Andre
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Andre Gide: Dostoevsky
In a series of lectures held in Vieux-Colombier in Paris, André Gide undertook a kind of rehabilitation of the great Russian writer before French and European readers. Until the publication of this study in 1923, Dostoevsky was considered an "incomprehensible monster" in the non-Russian world. At the beginning, Gide gives a detailed account of the reception of the Russian author, along with data on published translations and a review of their (poor) quality. The largest part of the lecture consists, supported by numerous, sometimes very long quotations from Dostoevsky's oeuvre, of diving into the moral depths and interpreting the dark side of human nature that emerge from his novels, whereby the ethical problems of Gide are emphasized with frequent paradoxes and contradictions, while also defining his own philosophical and ethical positions. In addition to these substantive, worldview aspects, which are clearly extremely important to both Gide and Dostoevsky, the lecturer's focus is also on formal, literary technical aspects. Gide interprets that Dostoevsky's basic ideas in his works are expressed through characters, showing, among other things, that they owe their vitality not so much to what is shown to us in books, but primarily to what remains hidden, kept silent. Gide compares Dostoyevsky with Rembrandt and calls him "the artist of the shadow". Finally, he connects the substantive and formal side and at the same time explicitly contrasts and connects Dostoevsky the artist and Dostoevsky the ideologist.
Dostoevsky's book, in addition to a series of lectures, also contains a short essay on The Brothers Karamazov, according to Gide the greatest novel ever written, and an analysis of the Russian writer's correspondence. It is shown that Dostoevsky's letters provide a valuable insight into the creative process that gave birth to many timeless works. In the book about Dostoyevsky, the reader learns about Dostoyevsky, but also about Gide. When a top writer analyzes a top writer, we gain a lot of invaluable knowledge about the multitude of layers of creative activity that "outsiders" are usually unaware of. Gide's collection of essays is still considered one of the fundamental works on the great Russian realist.
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- Author: Gide Andre
- Publisher: Arete
- Year of publication:2022
- Place of publication:Beograd
- Pages:156
- Dimensions:14x20 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:New book
- Binding:Softcover
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