The ambiguous treatment of some of Dostoevsky’s major themes was high on the menu in the first session on Thursday. Joe Andrew gave a very interesting paper on the ‘woman question’ in The Brothers Karamazov, discussing how marginalized the female characters are – in the central family grouping there are no mothers, daughters or sisters […]
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Women, beauty and other things
Posted by Sarah Young on June 18, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/06/18/women-beauty-and-other-things/
Live from Naples
I’m currently at the 14th International Dostoevsky Symposium in Naples, which started this morning. I missed the opening sessions so don’t have a great deal to report yet except to say that the surroundings in the Palazzo Du Mesnil are really rather sumptuous, and they provided us with a very fine lunch, for which I […]
Posted by Sarah Young on June 14, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/06/14/live-from-naples/
Dostoevsky and Holbein
I have a new publication, but unfortunately I fear that most of my readers will be as incapable of reading it as I am: ‘“Hakuchi” to Holbein “Hakano nakano Kirisuto”,’ Gendai Shiso, 38.4 (2010), 298-307. That’s ‘Holbein’s Christ inthe Tomb in The Idiot‘, translated by Kyohei Norimatsu (to whom many thanks) in a special Dostoevsky issue […]
Posted by Sarah Young on May 15, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/05/15/dostoevsky-and-holbein/