 | Asya Pekurovskaya. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Mechanisms of Desire
140×215 (60×90/16), hard cover, 608 pp., 2004
ISBN 5-86793-333-4
In this new study of the phenomenon of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pekurovskaya takes a psychoanalytical view of the man’s life and work, demonstrating how his imaginative world was dominated by the secret desire to rewrite and alter his biography through his novels. The study is written in the style of a detective story, interspersed and informed by various ideas from psychoanalysis and psychopathology. By comparing the ideas and phantasms of Dostoevsky with the ideas and phantasms of his interpreters, the author constructs a dialogue with the reader. This new dialectic is not a simple ‘exchange of ideas’, but a model of what might have taken place in the writer’s conscious and subconscious mind when composing his famous works.
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