Testing to the future. F.M. Dostoevsky as a participant in modern culture: Lyudmila Saraskina

The new monograph by the Doctor of Philological Sciences L.I. Saraskina explores modern reflection of fiction, literary criticism, actual political journalism, as well as art (cinema, theater, sculpture, poetry, TV) on the work of F. M. Dostoevsky. The focus is the multilateral influence of the writer on the modern world. At the beginning of the 20th century, a powerful intellectual tradition has developed – to judge Russia of the departed 19th century through the prism of Dostoevsky’s creative experience. The experience accumulated over the new century has only strengthened the tradition. Dostoevsky’s magic crystal remains the most accurate tool for understanding what has already happened to Russia, and what can happen to it in the future.
The book shows that Dostoevsky’s vertices, continuing to remain eternal, are again acutely at the steep turns of history – and the new reality seems to illustrate the pages of his novels. The history of Russia after Dostoevsky is perceived as periods of consonant with …

Author
Saraskina Lyudmila Ivanovna
Publisher
Progress-Strandation, 2010