Redemption and the Merchant God - Dostoevsky''s Economy of Salvation and Antisemitism

Informationen zum Autor SUSAN MCREYNOLDS is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Northwestern University. She is currently editing a new Norton Critical Edition of The Brothers Karamazov . Klappentext Dostoevsky's Russian chauvinism and anti-Semitism have long posed problems for his readers and critics. How could the author of The Brothers Karamazov also be the source of the slurs against Jews in Diary of a Writer ? And where is the celebrated Christian humanist in the nationalist outbursts of The Idiot ? These enigmas--the coexistence of humanism and hatred, faith and doubt--are linked, Susan McReynolds tells us, in Redemption and the Merchant God . Her book analyzes Dostoevsky's novels and Diary to show how the author's anxieties about Christianity can help solve the riddle of his anti-Semitism as well as that of his Russian messianism.

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• Authors: Susan McReynolds
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2011
• EAN: 9780810127876
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2787-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Studies in Russian Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies