Год выпуска: 2002 Автор: Yuri Marmeladov Издательство: The Birchbark Press of Karacharovo Страниц: 82 ISBN: 0-938618-02-4
Описание
Toward the end of the twentieth century, a little known Russian scholar uncovered in Dostoevsky's fiction a vast and intricate network of imagery built upon the Russian folk perception of the biblical prophet Elijah. Overlooked for nearly a century after Dostoevsky's death, the Elijah leitmotif permeates most of his major works and provides the key to an understanding of The Landlady, the early novella that has baffled critics since the day it was first published. After being hounded out of academia in both the USSR and the United States of America, Yuri Marmeladov's discoveries were finally published posthumously in Russia in 1992, just as the old regime was collapsing. Now for the first time Jay MacPherson and Solomon Gromyko have assembled and edited a manuscript that is Marmeladov's guide to "The Brothers Karamazov". These previously unpublished materials are the first treatment, of the Elijah theme in Dostoevsky's final novel, a novel which might have been called "The Brothers...