Table des matières

Contributor Biographies

Acknowledgements

Muireann Maguire et Timothy Langen

Introduction: Countersense and Interpretation

I. Gogol

Timothy Langen

1. Something for Nothing: Imagination and Collapse in O’Brien, Krzhizhanovsky, and Gogol

• Ibid
• Spacetimes of Reading
• Sausage, Crack, Egg
• Inception
• Force Multipliers
• Collapse

Ilya Vinitsky

2. Seeing Backwards: Raphael’s Portrait of Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol

• Fooling Everyone Around
• The Secretics
• Rhetoric of the Testament
• The Spiritual Monument
• The Transfiguration
• The Likeness
• Conclusion

II. Dostoevsky

Michael Bowden

3. The Voice of Ivan: Ethical Plagiarism in Dostoevsky and Coetzee

• Literary Ahistory
• Learn to Speak Without Authority
• At the Crux of a Dual Temporality
• The Voice of Ivan
• Russia’s Crisis of Modernization
• Ethically Better

David Gillespie et Marina Korneeva

4. Foretelling the Past: Fyodor Dostoevsky Follows Guzel’ Yakhina into the Heart of Darkness

• Moral Horror and Living Hell: The Prison Camp Experience in Dostoevsky and Yakhina
• Teardrops Unavenged: The Treatment of Children
• Conclusion

Inna Tigountsova

5. Notes from the Other Side of the Chronotope: Dostoevsky Anticipating Petrushevskaia

• Authorial Merging: The Chronotope of Petroevsky
• Petroevsky’s Narrators
• Narrative Space in Petroevsky
• Petroevsky’s Poetics of Time
• Ugliness and Dialogicity in Petroevsky
• Conclusion

III. Tolstoy

Muireann Maguire

6. Master and Manxman: Reciprocal Plagiarism in Tolstoy and Hall Caine

• Caine, The Manxman, and Mutual Plagiarism
• Caine, Russia, Jews and Doukhobors
• Caine and Tolstoy
• Conclusion

Steven Shankman

7. The Posteriority of the Anterior: Levinas, Tolstoy, and Responsibility for the Other

• Totality and Infinity as War and Peace
• Totality and the Face of Vereshchagin
• The Rupture of Totality: Enjoyment
• Infinity and the Face of Karataev
• Religion, Faith, and the Resistance to Vulnerability in Anna Karenina
• Thinking God on the Basis of Ethics: Tolstoy’s Resurrection
• Resurrection
• Tolstoy’s Rejection of Redemption through Faith
• The Religious Discourse Prior to Religious Discourse: ‘Here I Am’

Svetlana Yefimenko

8. From Sky to Sea: When Andrei Bolkonskii Voiced Achilles

• The Epic Character
• Heroes
• Deformed Heroes
• Life and Thought
• What They Said to the Ambassadors

Eric Naiman

Afterword: But Seriously, Folks…

(Pierre Bayard and the Russians)

• Pierre Bayard—the Great Liberator
• Pierre Bayard’s Nose
• Pierre Bayard—Ivan Karamazov
• Pierre Bayard, Victim of Anticipatory Plagiarism, or The Russian Empire Strikes Back

List of Figures

• Chapter 2
• Chapter 6

Index

About the Team