In Dostoevsky’s Dialectics and the Problem of Sin, Ksana Blank borrows from ancient Greek, Chinese, and Christian dialectical traditions to formulate a dynamic image of Dostoevsky’s dialectics—distinct from Hegelian dialectics—as a philosophy of “compatible contradictions.” Expanding on the classical triad of Goodness, Beauty, and Truth, Blank guides us through Dostoevsky’s most difficult paradoxes: goodness that begets evil, beautiful personalities that bring about grief, and criminality that brings about salvation.
Dostoevsky’s philosophy of contradictions, this book demonstrates, contributes to the development of antinomian thought in the writings of early twentieth-century Russian religious thinkers and to the development of Bakhtin’s dialogism. Dostoevsky’s Dialectics and the Problem of Sin marks an important and original intervention into the enduring debate over Dostoevsky’s spiritual philosophy.

Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory)

Literature & Fiction

Blank, Ksana

History & Criticism

Northwestern University Press

In the six essays of this book, Ksana Blank examines affinities among works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and their connections to the visual arts and music. Blank demonstrates that the borders of authorial creativity are not stable and absolute, that talented artists often transcend the classifications and paradigms established by critics. Featured in the volume are works by Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Nabokov, Daniil Kharms, Kazimir Malevich, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Spaces of Creativity (ENG): Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts (Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History)

Arts & Photography

Academic Studies Press

"The Guide focuses on Gogol's language in "The Nose" and his playful twisting of the many Russian idioms that are usually lost in English translations of the story. It traces Gogol's descriptions of St. Petersburg everyday life, familiar to the writer's contemporaries but hidden from the modern Western reader. It also presents major critical interpretations of the story and its connections to the works of Shostakovich, Kafka, Dali and Kharms"--

"the Nose": A Stylistic and Critical Companion to Nikolai Gogol's Story (Companions to Russian Literature) (English and Russian Edition)

Humor & Satire

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist masterpiece "The Nose." Part I focuses on numerous instances of the writer's wordplay, which is meant to surprise and delight the reader, but which often is lost in English translations. It traces Gogol's descriptions of everyday life in St. Petersburg, familiar to the writer's contemporaries and fellow citizens but hidden from the modern Western reader. Part II presents an overview of major critical interpretations of the story in Gogol scholarship from the time of its publication to the present, as well as its connections to the works of Shostakovich, Kafka, Dalí, and Kharms.

«The Nose»: A Styllistic and Critical Companion to Nikolai Gogol’s Story (Russian Edition)

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Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory)

Spaces of Creativity (ENG): Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts (Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History)

"the Nose": A Stylistic and Critical Companion to Nikolai Gogol's Story (Companions to Russian Literature) (English and Russian Edition)

«The Nose»: A Styllistic and Critical Companion to Nikolai Gogol’s Story (Russian Edition)