Dostoevsky's Secrets: Reading Against the Grain

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171 INTRODUCTION The chapter epigraphs are from Plato, Phaedrus, trans. W. C. Helmbold and W. G. Rabinowitz (New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1956), 70; Saint Augustine , Confessions, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin (Baltimore: Penguin, 1961), 337. 1. For a summary of the accounts of this momentous night, see the editors’ notes in F. M. Dostoevskii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v tridtsati tomakh (hereafter PSS), 30 vols. (Leningrad: Nauka, 1972–90), 1:465–66. 2. Frank Kermode, The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979), 136. 3. Grigorii Pomerants, Otkrytost’ bezdne: Etiudy o Dostoevskom (New York: Liberty, 1989), 64–65. 4. “God took seeds from other worlds and sowed them on this earth and grew his garden, and everything that could grow did grow, but it lives and maintains its life only through its tangible feeling of contact with mysterious other worlds” (PSS 14:290). 5. See Tatiana Kasatkina, “Ob odnom svoistve epilogov piati velikikh romanov Dostoevskogo: Prestuplenie i nakazanie,” in Dostoevskii v kontse XX veka, ed. Karen Stepanian (Moscow: Klassika plius, 1996). Richard Peace offers a translation of part of the essay in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment ”: A Casebook, ed. Richard Peace (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 171–87. 6. Caryl Emerson, “Word and Image in Dostoevsky’s Worlds: Robert Louis Jackson on Readings That Bakhtin Could Not Do,” in Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert Louis Jackson, ed. Elizabeth Cheresh Allen and Gary Saul Morson (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1995), 250. The Jackson quotation is from Dostoevsky’s Quest for Form: A Study of His Philosophy of Art (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1966), 52. 7. Emerson, “Word and Image,” 253. 8. Michael A. Sells, Mystical Languages of Unsaying (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 2. Notes 172 Notes to Pages 6–13 9. Henry M. W. Russell, “Beyond the Will: Humiliation as Christian Necessity : Crime and Punishment,” in Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition, ed. George Pattison and Diane Oenning Thompson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 226 (italics added). 10. Pomerants, Otkrytost’ bezdne, 98. 11. See Ivan A. Esaulov, “Kategoriia sobornosti v russkoi literature (k postanovke problemy),” in Evangel’skii tekst v russkoi literature XVIII–XX vekov: Tsitata, reministsentsiia, motiv, siuzhet, zhanr: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov (Petrozavodsk: Izdatel’stvo Petrozavodskogo universiteta, 1994), 32–60. 12. N. Strakhov, Biografiia, pis’ma i zametki iz zapisnoi knizhki F. M. Dostoevskogo (St. Petersburg, 1883), 373. 13. For readings that probe deeply into Dostoevsky’s theological and philosophical preoccupations, readers can turn to some excellent recent studies, including Liza Knapp, The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and Metaphysics (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1996); James Scanlan, Dostoevsky the Thinker (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002); Steven Cassedy, Dostoevsky’s Religion (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005); and Malcolm Jones, Dostoevsky and the Dynamics of Religious Experience (London: Anthem, 2005). 14. Susan L. Feagin, “Aesthetics,” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy , 2nd ed., ed. Robert Audi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 12. 15. See J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, 2nd ed., ed. J. O. Urmson and Marina Sbisa (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975), 12. 16. Ibid., 5. 17. Mysl’ izrechennaia est’ lozh’. From Fedor Ivanovich Tiutchev, “Silentium ,” 1830. CHAPTER 1 Part of chapter 1 was previously published as “Poor Folk: An Allegory of Body and Mind,” Dostoevsky Studies 2, no. 2 (1998): 44–61. The chapter epigraph is from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories (New York: Bantam, 1986), 310. 1. See P. V. Annenkov, The Extraordinary Decade, trans. Irwin R. Titunik (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1968), 150. 2. See V. V. Vinogradov’s definitive study of the Russian literary background of Poor Folk: V. V. Vinogradov, “Shkola sentimental’nogo naturalizma (Roman Dostoevskogo ‘Bednye liudi’ na fone literaturnoi evoliutsii 40–kh godov),” in Evoliutsiia russkogo naturalizma: Gogol’ i Dostoevskii (Leningrad: Akademiia, 1929), 291–389. Victor Terras’s The Young Dostoevsky remains the most thorough English-language study of the broader literary traditions influencing the 173 Notes to Pages 13–17 novel: see Victor Terras, The Young Dostoevsky (1846–1849): A Critical Study (The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1969). 3. I. D. Iakubovich, “Dostoevskii v rabote nad romanom ‘Bednye liudi,’” Dostoevskii: Materialy i issledovaniia 9 (1991): 50. 4. Thomas Nagel, “How to Be Free and Happy,” review of Bertrand Russell : The Ghost of Madness, 1921...