Dostoevsky's Spiritual Art: The Burden of VisionTransaction Publishers - 216 pagine Fyodor Dostoevsky's highest and most permanent achievement as a novelist lies in his exploration of man's religious complex, his world and his fate. His primary vision is to be found in his last five novels: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Devils, A Raw Youth, and The Brothers Karamazov. This volume culminates twenty years of studying, teaching, and writing on Dostoevsky. Here George A. Panichas critically analyzes the religious themes and meanings of the author's major works. Focusing on the pervasive spiritual consciousness at play, Panichas views Dostoevsky not as a religious doctrinaire, but as a visionary whose five great novels constitute a sequential meditation on man's human and superhuman destiny. |
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... becomes instead a divine brute in the destruction of human nature , as modern ideologies have amply demonstrated . The ego cannot immortalize itself , and the more the ego takes over , the more human nature disintegrates and becomes ...
... become as clear as day that the highest final development of the personality must arrive at this . .. : that man finds , knows , and is convinced , with the full force of his nature , that the highest use a man can make of his personal ...
... becomes the means of pursuing a spiritual good it be- comes its own kind of prison . When the ego is the autarchic center of its own universe it appears to have the limitless power to choose according to its own whim , but such " power ...
... becomes an experience of transcen- dence . It is true that Dostoevsky may be contradictory , but " he is never confused , " as Joyce Cary notes . The clarity , as well as the scope and power , of his imagination — his religious imag ...
... become Dostoevsky's extremes of fiction . Everyone stands at the very edge of something frightening . Madness , isolation , misery , pain , nightmare , chaos , smouldering sexual passions : these are the " fearful sights " in a world ...
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Dostoevsky's Spiritual Art: The Burden of Vision George Andrew Panichas Anteprima non disponibile - 1985 |