Dostoyevsky: The Novel Of Discord
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Few writers have charted the abyss of the human soul with the relentless precision of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Malcolm V. Jones's Dostoyevsky: The Novel of Discord stands as one of the most incisive critical examinations of this towering literary genius. Part of the prestigious Novelists and Their World series, this scholarly work argues that discord — psychological, social, and metaphysical — is not merely a theme in Dostoyevsky's fiction but the very structural and philosophical engine that drives his greatest novels, from Crime and Punishment to The Brothers Karamazov. Jones writes with a rare combination of academic rigour and narrative clarity, illuminating how Dostoyevsky's turbulent life — his mock execution, years in Siberian exile, and battles with epilepsy and gambling — forged a literary vision of radical tension and unresolved conflict. The analysis chronicles how Dostoyevsky dismantled the conventions of the 19th-century novel, replacing neat moral resolutions with polyphonic voices locked in perpetual ideological struggle — a quality Mikhail Bakhtin would later define as the dialogic imagination. For anyone seeking to truly understand why Dostoyevsky's fiction continues to unsettle and electrify readers over a century after his death, Jones's study is an essential and revelatory guide.
Author: Malcolm V. Jones
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Paul Elek London
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Few writers have charted the abyss of the human soul with the relentless precision of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Malcolm V. Jones's Dostoyevsky: The Novel of Discord stands as one of the most incisive critical examinations of this towering literary genius. Part of the prestigious Novelists and Their World series, this scholarly work argues that discord — psychological, social, and metaphysical — is not merely a theme in Dostoyevsky's fiction but the very structural and philosophical engine that drives his greatest novels, from Crime and Punishment to The Brothers Karamazov. Jones writes with a rare combination of academic rigour and narrative clarity, illuminating how Dostoyevsky's turbulent life — his mock execution, years in Siberian exile, and battles with epilepsy and gambling — forged a literary vision of radical tension and unresolved conflict. The analysis chronicles how Dostoyevsky dismantled the conventions of the 19th-century novel, replacing neat moral resolutions with polyphonic voices locked in perpetual ideological struggle — a quality Mikhail Bakhtin would later define as the dialogic imagination. For anyone seeking to truly understand why Dostoyevsky's fiction continues to unsettle and electrify readers over a century after his death, Jones's study is an essential and revelatory guide.