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fared somewhat better in volume 3) is a s a sexual t e a s e for D o s t o e v s k y - h e r main and only characteristic is to b e sexually unavailable for the great man. By "withholding sex- ual favors," s h e e n g a g e s in a "cat and m o u s e game" (p. 170). Despite Dostoevsky's wish for Suslova to "surrender herself" (p. 29), s h e remains "tantalizing but sexually aloof" (p. 463). Most disappointing of all is the fact that the women characters have practically no hold on Frank's attention. While it is true that Dostoevsky did not create any women thinkers c o m p a r a b l e in power and s c o p e to their male counterparts, t h e "woman question" was clearly an issue of great concern for the novelist since he m a k e s it a subject of discussion a n d dispute among characters in virtually every o n e of the nov- els of this period. But it d o e s not loom
Canadian-American Slavic Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1999
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