Dostoyevsky and the Process of Literary Creation

Table of Contents

Preface to the English edition
List of abbreviations
General editor's note on transliteration and references
General introduction
Part I. The Creative Environment: Introduction
1. Forms of creativity in embryo
2. The heritage
3. The heritage: literature
4. The heritage: history and philosophy
5. Illness
6. Money
Part II. The Process of Creation: Introduction
7. The writer at work
8. The great dialogue: the news item
9. The great dialogue: migrant images
10. The play of dialogue
11. The unity of thought in the novel
12. The summit of creative interrogation: 'The Life of a Great Sinner'
13. A Raw Youth: reasons for choice
14. A Raw Youth: the appearance of the vision
15. A Raw Youth: the human architecture
16. A Raw Youth: the idea of the novel
17. The composition of the novel in Dostoyevsky's work: choice of chronicle form
18. Composition of the novel in A Raw Youth: chronicle and stories
Part III. Time and Space in the World of the Novels: Introduction
19. The master of men and hours
20. Chronology and temporality in The Idiot
21. The ascending spiral
22. Time of power and power of time
23. The heavens of eternity
24. The dream of space and the space of the real
25. The inventory and the expressionist orchestration of scenery and lighting
26. The semantics of colour
27. The hero in space: sighting and seeing
Conclusion
Notes
Select bibliography
Index of names.

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