The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Arbery, Glenn. “The Violated Ikon: Dostoevsky and the Riddle of Beauty.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 36, no. 4 (summer 1984): 182-202.

Explores how Dostoevsky handled the concept of beauty in his writings, including The Idiot.

Comer, William J. “Rogozhin and the ‘Castrates’: Russian Religious Traditions in Dostoevsky's The Idiot.” The Slavic and East European Journal 40, no. 1 (spring 1996): 85-99.

Examines how Dostoevsky's interest in non-orthodox Russian religious movements influenced the development of The Idiot.

Kimmey, John. “James and Dostoevsky: The Heiress and the Idiot.” The Henry James Review 13, no. 1 (winter 1992): 67-77.

Compares the attributes of the main characters of Dostoevsky's The Idiot and James's The Wings of the Dove.

Kovacs, Arpad. “The Poetics of The Idiot: On the Problem...

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