Confession and Writing in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent
This article analyses the specificity of Dostoevsky’s confessional prose, focusing on the novel The Adolescent. Dostoevsky can be defined as a superconfessional author, but he is characterized by a certain suspicion, and a certain mistrustfulness towards the very process of confession is typical of...
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Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
2021
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/5f6bfcb3abdb4ddc9a881f81afa384d2 |
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| Summary: | This article analyses the specificity of Dostoevsky’s confessional prose, focusing on the novel The Adolescent. Dostoevsky can be defined as a superconfessional author, but he is characterized by a certain suspicion, and a certain mistrustfulness towards the very process of confession is typical of him. The article attempts to show that this apparent paradox has its origins in the modern context in which Dostoevsky operates, when religious, sacramental confession gives way to a psychological practice of self-affirmation. |
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