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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1535-5314
- eISSN
- 2375-2122
- DOI
- 10.1163/23752122-01401003
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
The traumatic event in the author’s life – a mock execution – has found its way into his works, both fiction and non-fiction, in an almost obsessively repetitious manner. Dostoevsky finds this original trauma analogous to many kinds of “threshold” events in which the moment before the final crossing over – be it murder, confession or a proposal of marriage – is experienced similarly as one of heightened awareness and acute intensity. The paper explores such “threshold” events in Dostoevsky’s opus.
Journal
The Dostoevsky Journal: A Comparative Literature Review – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2014
Keywords: Punishment; Execution; Threshold; Analogy; Philosophy