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DOSTOEVSKY STUDIES DOSTOEVSKY DOSTOEVSKY THE JOURNAL OF THE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL DOSTOEVSKY SOCIETY 23 Volume 23 - 2020 dostoevsky studies Managing Editor Stefano Aloe – Università di Verona Editorial Board Carol Apollonio – Duke University (IDS President) Satoshi Bamba – Niigata University Yuri Corrigan – Boston University Pavel E. Fokin – “Memorial flat of F. M. Dostoevsky”, Moscow Benamí Barros García – Universidad de Granada (Journal’s OJS Admin) Christoph Garstka – Ruhr-Universität Bochum Alejandro Ariel González – Sociedad Argentina Dostoievski Kate Holland – University of Toronto Sarah Hudspith – University of Leeds Boris N. Tikhomirov – Dostoevsky Museum in St Petersburg Vladimir N. Zakharov – Petrozavodsk State University Editorial Consultants: Sergey S. Shaulov (Russian texts editor) – Moscow State Literature Museum Dostoevsky Studies, founded in 1980, is the journal of the International Dostoevsky Society (IDS). The Journal is published annually by the International Dostoevsky Society & the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Verona. It is a peer-reviewed Journal. Languages of publication are Russian and English. Quotes to Dostoevsky’s work in the original are indicated by in-text brackets and reference to the first 30 volume Academ- ic edition: Ф. М. Достоевский, Полное собрание сочинений, в 30 тт. (Ленинград: Наука, 1972-1990), abbreviated: ПСС; or to the 35 volume current Academic edition: Ф. М. Достоевский, Полное собрание сочинений и писем, в 35 тт. (Санкт-Петербург: Наука, 2013-), abbreviated: ПССП. Copyright Notice: Authors will retain copyright of their work but give the journal first publishing rights. Articles will be simultaneously li- censed by a Creative Common License - Attribution - No Commercial Use that permits other researchers to share the work by indicating the author’s intellectual property and its first publishing in this journal not for commercial use. Authors can adhere to other license agreements not exclusive to the distribution of the published version of their work (for example: include it in an institutional archive or publish it in a monograph) as long as they indicate that it was first pub- lished in this journal. Authors can disseminate their work (for example in institutional repositories or on their personal website) before and dur- ing the submission procedure, as it can lead to advantageous exchanges and citations of the work. © 2020 Graphic design project & Layout: Erica Apolloni Mailing Address Principal Contact Support Contact Department of Foreign Stefano Aloe Benamí Barros García Languages and Literatures University of Verona Email: [email protected] University of Verona Phone: +398028409 L.ge P.ta Vittoria, 41 Email: [email protected] 37029 Verona - italy and [email protected] issn 1013-2309 1 dostoevsky studies The Journal of the International Dostoevsky Society New Series Volume XXIII, 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS • содержание FOREWORDS • вступительные слова Carol Apollonio Introductory Word . 3 Stefano Aloe Foreword and a short history of the Journal . .5 . Стефано Алоэ Вступление, или краткая история Журнала . 19. ARTICLES • статьи Deborah Martinsen The Idiot as a Tragedy of Unforgiveness . 29 Jasmina Vojvodić Лихорадочные герои романа Идиот Ф. М. Достоевского (Тело и выход из тела) . 57. Gary Rosenshield Crime and Punishment, Napoleon, and the Great Man Theory . 78 Maria Candida Ghidini Литературная искренность. Дискуссия о Достоевском и о романе во Франции в конце 1920-х годов . 105 Christoph Garstka The Enlightened West – or the Light from the East? Dostoyevski’s Construction of the Other out of Crisis . .121 . 2 DOSTOEVSKY FORUM • форум о достоевском Валентина Ветловская Современное прочтение Ф. М. Достоевского: Размышления на темы книги Х.-Ю. Геригка Литературное мастерство Достоевского в развитии: От “Записок из Мертвого дома” до “Братьев Карамазовых” (СПб.: Изд. Пушкинского Дома, Нестор-История, 2016) . 139. BOOK REVIEWS • рецензии Katherine Bowers, Connor Doak, Kate Holland (ed .), A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018) (= Cultural Syllabus) . Paperback, 535 pp . ISBN 978-1-61811-727-4 (Daniel Schümann) . 167 Raffaella Vassena, Dostoevskij post-mortem. L’eredità dostoevskiana tra editoria, stato e società (1881-1910) (Milano: Ledizioni, 2020), 204 pp . (Alessandra Visinoni) . 171 NEWS • новости Benamí Barros García Minutes from the 2019 IDS Symposium . 177 . Jordi Morillas José Luis Flores, Alejandro Ariel González Estudios Dostoievski ◆ О журнале Estudios Dostoievski . 179 . Kate Holland News from the North American Dostoevsky Society (NADS) . 181 Павел Фокин Новости из России . 183. Ikuo Kameyama News from the Dostoevsky Society of Japan . 185 Стефано Алоэ Новости из Италии . 188 Новости из Аргентины . 191 Prof Dr Rudolf Neuhäuser (1933-2020) . 192 . 3 INTRODUCTORY WORD This inaugural issue of the onlineDostoevsky Studies marks the turn of a new century – Dostoevsky’s third . As we begin a year-long, worldwide celebration of the writer’s bicentennial in 2021, we look back on a rich critical tradition, in which we proudly share . Over its fifty years in existence,Dostoevsky Studies has served as the major international journal dedicated to the writer’s work . Our journal began as the Bulletin of the International Dostoevsky Society soon after the Society’s founding in 1971 . TheBulletin grew along with the Society and became, in 1980, Dostoevsky Studies . The New Series began publication in 1993, culminating in Dostoevsky Studies 22 in 2018 . The journal has been published in Klagenfurt, Austria; Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, Idyllwild, CA (USA); and Dresden and Tübingen, Germany . With each new stage in its development, the journal has expanded its reach and responded to the spirit of the times, offering cutting-edge scholarship, forums, reviews, news of the profession, and the he- roic work of bibliographers like June Pachuta Farris, her predecessors and suc- cessors . This, the first onlineDostoevsky Studies, begins its life in Verona, Italy, with the most diverse and international Editorial Board in history, representing scholars from Dostoevsky’s homeland and from all points of the compass: Eu- rope, Asia, North America, and South America . We are proud to share the work of fine scholars from around the world in this fresh new incarnation of our journal . We welcome you into our community . Carol Apollonio, President The International Dostoevsky Society December 2020 5 FOREWORD AND A SHORT HISTORY OF THE JOURNAL A close analysis of the ways the world has read and perceived Dostoevsky at different historical moments can serve as a barometer of the evolution of hu- man thought, our priorities, hopes and fears, and our view of reality over the past one and a half centuries and up to the present day . Dostoevsky had already achieved global popularity by the end of the 19th century, and from the begin- ning of the 20th century he was already considered a leading thinker; reading and interpreting his novels became a requirement for new generations of writ- ers, philosophers, intellectuals, and ordinary people . Attention to the work of Dostoevsky, to his complex, contradictory per- sonality, to his multifaceted heritage, can be measured by the change of eras and by the metamorphoses of the modern world . A writer’s reception is of- ten accompanied by a change of paradigms, the establishment of new tasks and the emergence of new interpretations of his work . This kind of turning point in Dostoevsky reception came about fifty years ago and is symbolical- ly connected to the 150th anniversary of his birth in 1971 . At around that year, so significant for Dostoevsky studies and therefore for this journal, something simultaneously shifted in the Soviet Union and in other ideologically divided parts of the world . In the USSR in 1971 two museums dedicated to Dostoevsky opened, one in Leningrad and one in Semipalatinsk, a sign that the Soviet government was fi- nally elevating the writer from ‘disgrace’, opening up the inevitability of the state officially beginning to acknowledge his greatness . Soon afterwards, the publication of the Complete Academic Collected Works of the writer would be- gin, under the editorship of V . V . Vinogradov and later G . M . Friedlander . And in the international context, the year 1971 is significant above all as the moment of the founding of the International Dostoevsky Society (IDS) and the date of its first Symposium, held in Bad Ems (West Germany) . The previous year, one of the main pillars of the IDS, the North American Dostoevsky Society (NADS) had been founded .1 1 One of the founders of the IDS, Prof . Rudolf Neuhäuser, has written an extensive memoir of the history of the society . This work is interesting and rich in detail, but at the same time, its account of the life of the Society is very one-sided and includes a number of important inaccuracies, as pointed out by other founders of the Society, Malcolm Jones and William Mills Todd, III . See Rudolf Neuhäuser, “The International Dostoevsky Society: From the Beginnings to the End of its Existence as an Independent Voluntary Organization”, Dostoevsky Studies . New Series, Vol . 21, 2017, pp . 13-41; Malcolm V . Jones, William Mills 6 stefano aloe In February 1972, the first issue of theBulletin of the International Dostoev- sky Society was published; this modest typewritten brochure of 28 pages was the de facto first stage in the life of the current Journal Fig.( 1 and 2) . The au-