"A Positive Failure": Holy Foolishness, Paradox, and Narrative in Dostoevsky's "The Idiot"
- UNCA Author/Contributor (non-UNCA co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Britt DiBartolo (Creator)
- Institution
- University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA )
- Web Site: http://library.unca.edu/
- Advisor
- Merritt Mosely
Abstract: The paradoxical and seemingly unredemptive ending of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" informs the reception of the novel as a failure; in this paper, the author argues that the novel's perceived failure and weaknesses serve a problematic ad hoc ending that engages readers in an interpretive exercise to consider the compatibility of spirituality and the competing secular egoisms of 19th century Russian society.
"A Positive Failure": Holy Foolishness, Paradox, and Narrative in Dostoevsky's "The Idiot"
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- Publication
- Other
- Language: English
- Date: 2018
- Keywords
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, literary critique, failure