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Princeton. 1981. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Worn Dustjacket With a Few Small Holes and Some Discoloration Primarily Along the Front Top and Bottom Edges. 0691064849. 381 pages. hardcover. Original photograph by Konstantin A. Shapiro. keywords: Literary Criticism Russia Literature Dostoevsky. FROM THE PUBLISHER-This book is truly outstanding-unique, brilliantly organized, and a most useful contribution to Dostoevsky studies. -William M. Todd III, Stanford University. Robert Louis Jackson considers Dostoevsky's powerful but much neglected Notes from the House of the Dead the seminal work of his post-Siberian period and critical to an interpretation of his art from 1861 to 1881. He projects this work as an artistic embodiment of a Christian poetics of insight and transfiguration. Breaking new ground, he explores the interrelated social, moral, aesthetic, psychological, and philosophical problems that absorbed Dostoevsky in his prison masterpiece and shows how these same motifs unite and shape many of his subsequent novels and short stories. In the opening chapters Professor Jackson examines the interlocking themes of Notes from the House of the Dead: the problem of human nature and the issues of gambling, fate, freedom and responsibility, conscience and suffering, evil and the ideal. He then discusses them as they enter the fabric of Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, and The Gambler. His concluding essays focus on the experimental sketches and stories in Diary of a Writer and on sections from The Brothers Karamazov. inventory #41452.
