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The Idiot: An Interpretation

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Author(s): Victor Terras
Series: Twayne’s Masterwork Studies
Edition: 1
Publisher: Twayne Publisher
Year: 1990

Language: English
Pages: 120
City: Boston

Contents......Page 6
Note on the References and Acknowledgments......Page 8
Chronology: Fyodor Dodtoevsky's Life and Work......Page 10
1. Historical Context......Page 14
2. The Importance of the Work......Page 19
3. Critical Reception......Page 22
4. The Notebooks to The Idiot......Page 32
5. The Evidence from Dostoevsky’s Correspondence......Page 40
6. Personal Elements in The Idiot......Page 45
7. The Literary Subtext......Page 49
8. Composition......Page 54
9. The Narrator......Page 67
10. The Psychological Backdrop......Page 73
11. The Moral Level......Page 82
12. The Metaphysical-Religious Level......Page 85
13. Various Novelistic Devices......Page 98
Notes and References......Page 106
Selected Bibliography......Page 110
Index......Page 116
About the Author......Page 120