Christian Fiction and Religious Realism in the Novels of Dostoevsky

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Author: Wil van den BerckenISBN: 9780857289766Publisher: Anthem PressYear first published: 01 Jan 2011Pages: 164 Format: HardbackThis study offers a literary analysis and theologic al evaluation of the Christian themes in the five great novels of Dostoevsky - 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot', 'The Adolescent', 'The Devils' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'. Dostoevsky's ambiguous treatment of religious issues in his literary works strongly differs from the slavophile Orthodoxy of his journalistic writings. In the novels Dostoevsky deals with Christian basic values, which are presented via a unique tension between the fictionality of the Christian characters and the readers' experience of the existential reality of their religious problems. Show more