Dostoevsky's Secrets: Reading Against the Grain

Index

217 Fictional characters are indexed under the name by which they are best known (e.g., Aleksei Ivanovich) and followed by the abbreviation of the book in which they appear. This index uses the following abbreviations: BK The Brothers Karamazov CP Crime and Punishment D Demons Db The Double G The Gambler I The Idiot L The Landlady PF Poor Folk WN White Nights Abelard and Heloise, Letters of, 13, 18 accusation, 10–11, 41, 71, 73, 86–92, 117– 19, 128, 132, 137, 140–41, 162, 167, 170, 192n5 accuser (devil), 119, 130; Dunia as, 86. See also slander; and under Katerina Ivanovna (BK) Acis and Galatea (Lorrain), 138–41, 167 Adelaida Ivanovna (BK), 144, 147–51, 158, 198n1, 200n33 aesthetics, 8 Alderotti, Taddeo, 145 Aleksei Ivanovich (G), 44–45, 48, 51, 53, 55–59, 61–66, 179n5, 181n49 Alyosha Karamazov (BK), 37, 49, 76, 98, 100, 118, 145–47, 150–52, 154–64, 167– 68, 185n27, 188n16, 198n1, 201n40 Amert, Susan, 198n6 Anderson, Roger, 176n9 Andrew, Joe, 14, 22, 173n8, 174n21, 175n25 Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 197n63 Antichrist, 122, 125–26, 129 Antigone, 83 apocalypse, 12, 110, 134 Index Apocalypse, 12, 188n14, 193–94n22, 195n46; in Demons, 110, 113, 125–28, 136–37; in The Idiot, 99–100. See also “neither hot nor cold” Apollinaria Suslova. See Polina Suslova apophatic reading, 6–7, 10–11, 13, 93, 167, 169–70; and Crime and Punishment, 68, 73, 88; and Demons, 112, 115–16, 139, 141; and The Gambler, 51, 57, 66; and The Idiot, 95, 100 ascetism, 134, 158; Dunia’s, 84, 86; Raskolnikov ’s, 73–74, 82 “Asya” (Turgenev), 77 “At Tikhon’s.” See under Stavrogin (D) Augustine, 3, 83 Austin, J. L., 10, 119, 195n39 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 122; and carnival space, 54; and dialogic poetics, 6, 78–79, 143; and double-voiced speech, 121; and horizontal and vertical axes of meaning (chronotope), 6, 102–3, 188n17, 189n20; and orientation toward the other, 15; and threshold/boundary, 33. See also under Poor Folk (Dostoevsky) Index 218 Bakunin, Mikhail, 135, 195n42, 197n65 Balzac, Honoré de, 61; work: Le Père Goriot, 14 bathhouse: and casino as carnival space, 54–55; and Smerdiakov, 161–62; and Svidrigailov’s hell, 54 Baumgarten, Alexander, 8 belief. See faith Belinsky, Vissarion, 13, 104, 176n6; and White Nights, 28, 29 Belknap, Robert, 152, 157 Bem, A. L., 31–32, 156, 176n7, 176n15 Berdyaev, Nicholas, 166–67 Bethea, David, 126 Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (Holbein ), 5, 93–97, 99–100, 167 Børtnes, Jostein, 125, 139 Brooks, Peter, 111, 138 Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), 8, 37, 39, 49, 56, 76, 92, 99, 107, 110, 121, 129–30; analysis of, 144–65 Buber, Martin, works: Good and Evil, 104, 117, 144; I and Thou, 9, 27, 43, 67, 75, 78–79, 85, 92, 193n17 Burkert, Walter, 67 Bykov (PF), 9–10, 14–15, 17–23, 25–31, 72, 167, 169, 174n21, 175n28; outside of literature , 17–18, 25; as seducer, 19–20 calculation (raschet), 150; in Crime and Punishment, 25, 71, 73, 81, 89–91; in The Gambler, 45, 47–57, 66 Cana of Galilee, 37, 150, 152, 163 Cassedy, Steven, 83 castrates, 134–35, 195n46, 197n59 catharsis, 10, 31, 40, 83, 87, 152, 157 Catholicism, 111 Catteau, Jacques, 54 Chernyshevsky, Nikolai, 77, 139, 176n8 Christ, 6, 12, 77, 83, 162, 168, 176n8; and Dostoevsky’s “credo,” 134, 168, 195n40; figure in Demons, 130, 135, 141; figure in The Idiot, 12, 94, 103; and Holbein’s Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb, 93–102, 167; in Revelation, 126; sacrifice of, 83, 134 Christianity, 5, 114, 141, 145, 149, 161; and Dostoevsky’s “credo,” 6, 145, 167; law and grace and, 47–48; and memory, 149; renunciation of, 149; and tragedy, 83; Zosima’s, 145 Clarissa (Richardson), 23–26 confession, 41, 112, 114, 119–20, 127, 130, 163–64, 174n24; in Crime and Punishment , 67, 72, 75–76, 78, 81–82, 86; false, 127–28, 174n24; Ippolit’s in The Idiot, 93–103; slander and, 10–12; Smerdiakov’s, 162. See also under Stavrogin (D) Confessions (Rousseau), 17, 106, 138–40, 195n46 Cox, Gary, 185n26, 185n28, 186n37 Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), 5, 6, 11, 107, 114, 116, 119, 128, 132, 140, 167; analysis of, 67–92; and The Gambler , 46, 51, 53 crime of passion, 10 Culler, Jonathan, 111 Dal’, Vladimir, 80 Danow, David, 121, 183n6, 193n11 Dante, 102 Dead House. See House of the Dead (Dostoevsky ) death of the author, 7...