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What does Dostoyevsky's character's statement about Permissiveness mean for Morality in Western Civilization?
One of Western civilizations most important and well-respected piece of literature is The Brothers Karamazov by Feodor Dostoyevsky. Among other important religious issues, Dostoyevsky has one of his ...
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Locating a quote in Dostoevsky's The Idiot
I am trying to locate this quote that I came across. I believe it was spoken by Aglaya (or Nastasya?) in The Idiot, but I'm having trouble locating it:
“I want to talk about everything with at least ...
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"Hamlet" reference in "Crime and Punishment": translator's invention?
I am reading Pevear & Volokhonsky's translation of Crime and Punishment. In part II, chapter 6, Raskolnikov is at the "Crystal Palace" restaurant, where he runs into the clerk Zamyotov ...
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What is the significance of the money given to Liza in Notes from Underground?
At the end of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, the following occurs (from Wikipedia):
After all this, he still acts terribly toward her, and, before she
leaves, he stuffs a five ruble note ...
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What is the main idea and the main problem of Dostoyevsky's Demons?
What is the main idea and the main problem of Dostoyevsky's novel Demons? I have tried to identify one main idea and the main problem of the novel, but in the end nothing came out.
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What does it mean to look like "a hair-dresser's assistant"?
In the 1st Chapter, Part I of Dostoevsky's The Idiot (Eva Martin's translation) you can find the following passage, in which Rogojin is describing the first time he saw Nastasia Philipovna:
I was ...
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Use of "pounds" instead of "roubles" in passage of "The Idiot"
In the 1st Chapter, Part I of Dostoevsky's The Idiot (Eva Martin's translation) you can find the following passage:
These men generally have about a hundred pounds a year to live on (...)
In this ...
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What kind of censorship was Dostoevsky avoiding by obscuring place names?
In the opening paragraph of Crime and Punishment, two locations, S— Lane and K—n Bridge, are identified only by their first and final letters. My translation has a footnote which says that Dostoevsky ...
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Original Russian text of this review of Crime and Punishment
In the introduction to Constance Garnett's translation of Crime and Punishment, she quotes this Russian critic:
In the words of a Russian critic, who seeks to explain the feeling
inspired by ...
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The Brothers Karamazov - Why does Dmitri use "Bernard" as an insult?
"Bernard" is first mentioned in Book XI. Ivan, Chapter IV, in an exchange between Dmitri and Alyosha:
“Ethics?” asked Alyosha, wondering.
“Yes; is it a science?”
“Yes, there is such a ...
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The Brothers Karamazov - ladies of the eighteen stone?
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Book XI, Chapter IX
The expression "eighteen stone" is mentioned 3 times in the whole book, all in same chapter:
What I dream of is becoming ...
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The Brothers Karamazov - What is "The Bell"?
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Book X, Chapter IV
Long will you remember
The house at the Chain bridge.
Do you remember? It's splendid. Why are you laughing? You don't suppose I am ...
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The Brothers Karamazov - When was Russia saved before?
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Book VI, Chapter 3
And how suprised men would be if I were to say that from these meek
monks, who yearn for solitary prayer, the salvation of Russia will
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The Brothers Karamazov - What is the "Chain bridge"?
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Book X, Chapter IV
I say this only to you. I am not at all anxious to fall into the
clutches of the secret police and take lessons at the Chain bridge.
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In the Brothers Karamazov, did Dostoyevsky take those characters out of real life?
In the novel The Brothers Karamazov, did the writer take those characters out of real life? Or did he just build the characters with time?
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