This poem merits serious consideration on three separate, but related grounds: first, it constitutes a brilliant parody of romantic idealism of the 1830s second, it is a display of Dostoevsky’s wicked humor at its most delicious and vicious and third, it provides an early and often overlooked outline of the main religious theme of the entire novel. G-v, describes a so-called “dangerous” poem written by the young Stepan Trofimovich. Michael Katz, “Stepan Verkhovensky’s Dangerous Poem in Dostoevsky’s Devils”Ībstract: In Part One, Chapter One of Dostoevsky’s Devils, the always entertaining and rarely reliable narrator, Mr. Panel 1: New Readings of The Devils ~ 10:10am-11:30am Organizers’ brief opening remarks ~ 10:00am-10:10am The registration link is there too!Ĭheck out the schedule and abstracts below! It’s free to attend with registration and you can find all the details about it on the event website. The virtual conference is co-organized by Irina Erman and Lynn Patyk. 'The Idiot' has also been adapted for films and TV, as has 'Demons' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.Need a laugh? Look no further than the Funny Dostoevsky conference coming up later this week. There have been at least 30 film and TV adaptations of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1866 novel 'Crime and Punishment' with probably the most popular being the British BBC TV series starring John Simm as Raskolnikov and Ian McDiarmid as Porfiry Petrovich.
A connoisseur of the troubled human psyche and the relationships between the individuals, Dostoevsky’s oeuvre covers a large area of subjects: politics, religion, social issues, philosophy, and the uncharted realms of the psychological. The situation becomes a scene from the theatre of the absurd, making the tale a poignant finger wagging at the problems of humanity.įyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a famous Russian writer of novels, short stories, and essays.
What follows is an immensely humorous and satirical account of Ivan's new life from inside the crocodile, unable to get out because the owner refuses to kill the beast.Ī precursor to Kafka’s 'Metamorphosis', Dostoevsky’s short story is a farcical depiction and social criticism of Russian society at the time. Ivan Matveich was thinking it was a bad idea to see a live crocodile on the street as it swallowed him whole! Why couldn't it have eaten his wife Elena instead?
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