This exciting addition to Dostoevsky studies deals with the
religious dimension of the novelist's life and fiction. Malcolm
Jones takes a fresh reading of Dostoevsky's representation of
religion in his fictional world, that allows for both mystery and
fear. The author argues that the spiritual map of human experience
that Dostoevsky offers includes only the occasional small island of
serenity in vast, turbulent oceans of doubt, rebellion, rejection,
indifference and disbelief. Dostoevsky is also viewed as an artist,
revealing glimpses of salvation through subversive narrative
techniques and destabilized, vulnerable characters. Dostoevsky's
fictional characters experience the dread of a meaningless void as
well as a desperate longing for the restorative binding idea that
religion offers. 'Dostoevsky and the Dynamics of Religious
Experience' offers a balanced and authoritative argument. The book
is structured through six clearly defined and self-reliant essays
that take into account past and current criticism and offer a close
textual analysis of Dostoevsky's works, including 'The Double',
'Notes from Underground', 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot', 'The
Devils' and an in-depth study of 'The Brothers Karamazov'. This
work is a major contribution to the study of Dostoevsky and Russian
Literature in Europe, the USA, Russia and throughout the world.
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