The secrets of Dostoevsky. Reading against the current. Apollonio K.

Fact or Truth? Rational thinking or revelation? The author invites us to answer the question of what we want to find in the texts of Dostoevsky and what is prepared to find him to the heroes. And if our choice is in favor of truth and revelation, Carol Apollonio offers us strategies for such a search. Combining the critical traditions of M. M. Bakhtin and R. L. Jackson, based, respectively, on a detailed analysis of the word and image, she offers us a new fruitful approach. The subject of its analysis is the spirit of St. Petersburg in the story “Poor People”, the spontaneous power inherent in the figures of mothers, in the novel “The Brothers Karamazov” (as in general, the theme “Dostoevsky and women”), issues of love and money in the “player”. A similar look allows the reader to penetrate deeper into the essence of the truths hidden from the eyes, enclosed in Dostoevsky’s novels. About the author: Carol Apollonio Professor of the University of Dyuk (USA), specialist in Russian literature, translator from Russian and Japanese languages. Chairman of the North American Society of Dostoevsky. The author of books and articles about Russian literature.