Love Blocked by Pride: about the “System” Illusiveness and Mechanism of Death in F.M. Dostoyevsky’s story “A Gentle Creature”

Dostoyevsky’s novel Krotkaya (translated in English as A Gentle Creature or The Meek One) reveals a problem of conflict between love and will behind the story of the husband and the wife. It discloses the relationship between one and other, one and oneself, and man and highest existence. The argumen...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:4d66ffa55aa44c8595501c09e807979a2021-12-02T19:41:11ZLove Blocked by Pride: about the “System” Illusiveness and Mechanism of Death in F.M. Dostoyevsky’s story “A Gentle Creature”10.224455/2619-0311-2018-2-85-1012619-03112712-8512https://doaj.org/article/4d66ffa55aa44c8595501c09e807979a2018-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dostmirkult.ru/images/DOCT_2018-2a-разв-85-101.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2619-0311https://doaj.org/toc/2712-8512Dostoyevsky’s novel Krotkaya (translated in English as A Gentle Creature or The Meek One) reveals a problem of conflict between love and will behind the story of the husband and the wife. It discloses the relationship between one and other, one and oneself, and man and highest existence. The argument presented in the book is a metaphysical issue concerning sin and death. Among people with close ties, the inertia in man together with the indolence of a conservative society colludes, forming an unequal system of sin. This system of sin develops an automatic running mechanism. And the lack of “love for each other” processed this automatic running mechanism, spreading sin, resulting in psyche abuse to one another as well as one’s own perish. The deconstruction factor embedded inside the system of sin per se ultimately led to the collapse of the system. However, to gain an understanding of truth, one needs to pay the price of death. This paper introduces the concept of narrative-as-dynamicexperience, and will unravel the core semantics of the novel from the perspective of narrative progressionZhang BiangeRussian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World LiteraturearticledostoevskykrotkayasystemdeathmechanismSlavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665ENRUДостоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, Iss 2, Pp 85-101 (2018)
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topic dostoevsky
krotkaya
system
death
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Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
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system
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Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
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Zhang Biange
Love Blocked by Pride: about the “System” Illusiveness and Mechanism of Death in F.M. Dostoyevsky’s story “A Gentle Creature”
description Dostoyevsky’s novel Krotkaya (translated in English as A Gentle Creature or The Meek One) reveals a problem of conflict between love and will behind the story of the husband and the wife. It discloses the relationship between one and other, one and oneself, and man and highest existence. The argument presented in the book is a metaphysical issue concerning sin and death. Among people with close ties, the inertia in man together with the indolence of a conservative society colludes, forming an unequal system of sin. This system of sin develops an automatic running mechanism. And the lack of “love for each other” processed this automatic running mechanism, spreading sin, resulting in psyche abuse to one another as well as one’s own perish. The deconstruction factor embedded inside the system of sin per se ultimately led to the collapse of the system. However, to gain an understanding of truth, one needs to pay the price of death. This paper introduces the concept of narrative-as-dynamicexperience, and will unravel the core semantics of the novel from the perspective of narrative progression
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author Zhang Biange
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title Love Blocked by Pride: about the “System” Illusiveness and Mechanism of Death in F.M. Dostoyevsky’s story “A Gentle Creature”
title_short Love Blocked by Pride: about the “System” Illusiveness and Mechanism of Death in F.M. Dostoyevsky’s story “A Gentle Creature”
title_full Love Blocked by Pride: about the “System” Illusiveness and Mechanism of Death in F.M. Dostoyevsky’s story “A Gentle Creature”
title_fullStr Love Blocked by Pride: about the “System” Illusiveness and Mechanism of Death in F.M. Dostoyevsky’s story “A Gentle Creature”
title_full_unstemmed Love Blocked by Pride: about the “System” Illusiveness and Mechanism of Death in F.M. Dostoyevsky’s story “A Gentle Creature”
title_sort love blocked by pride: about the “system” illusiveness and mechanism of death in f.m. dostoyevsky’s story “a gentle creature”
publisher Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
publishDate 2018
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