Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, and the Outsider

by Peter J. Leithart

George Pattison’s closing essay in Dostoevsky and the Christian Traditionexplores the similarities between Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky.It’s been common to read both as “prophets revealing to `modern man’ the abyssal freedom, the wild frontiers and the midnight cries that . . . . Continue Reading »

Dostoevsky’s Moral Fiction

by Peter J. Leithart

In an essay on Dostoevsky and evil in Between Religion and Rationality, Joseph Frank observes that Dostoevsky frequently leads readers into moral horrors, but his “unflinching explorations of evil” don’t leave readers paralyzed. How does that work?Frank traces . . . . Continue Reading »