What place do Dostoevsky's works occupy in the history of the
novel? To answer this question, Michael Holquist focuses on the
formal aspects of Dostoevskian narrative. The author argues that
the novel is a genre that constantly seeks its own identity: we
still do not know what it is, since the uniqueness of its members
defines the class to which it belongs. This anomaly explains the
central role of the novel for Russians, perplexed as they were in
the nineteenth century by idiosyncrasies that hindered development
of a coherent national identity. Michael Holquist shows that the
generic impulse of the novel to explore the mysteries of individual
biography met and fused in Dostoevsky's works with the national
quest of the Russians for an identity of their own. The paradox of
the writer's achievement consists in the degree to which his
meditations on the significance of being without a past are
grounded in history. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
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original texts of these important books while presenting them in
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