“It’s All One Big Fantasy”: The Critique of Modernity in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot

The opposition between Europe and Russia runs through Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot, culminating in Mme Epanchina’s declaration that both Europe and the Russians who travel to Europe are “one big fantasy” [Dostoevsky, 2002, p. 615]. In the novel, Dostoevsky uses the exile trope as a literary tool for...

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Main Author: Katya Jordan
Format: article
Language:EN
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Published: Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/3dbdb6752af5423189641c0163c9172e
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