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Dostoevsky and the Epileptic Mode of Being (Hardcover)
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Dostoevsky and the Epileptic Mode of Being (Hardcover)
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For Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), who lived with epileptic seizures
for more than thirty years, illness is an ineradicable part of
existence. Epilepsy in his writings denotes both a set of physical
symptoms and a state of survival in which the protagonists
incessantly try to articulate, theorize, or master what is
ungraspable in their everyday experience. Their attempts to deal
with what they cannot control or comprehend results in
disappointment, or what Dostoevsky called a mystical terror.
Dostoevsky's heroes are unable fully to understand this state, and
their existence becomes 'epileptic' in so far as self-knowledge and
self-coincidence are never achieved. Fung explores new critical
pathways by reexamining five of Dostoevsky's post-Siberian novels.
Drawing on insights from writers including Benjamin, Blanchot,
Freud, Lacan and Nietzsche, the book takes epilepsy as a trope for
discussing the unspeakable moments in the texts, and is intended
for students and scholars who are interested in the subject of
modernity, critique of the visual, and dialogues between philosophy
and literature. Paul Fung is Assistant Professor in English at Hang
Seng Management College, Hong Kong.
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