Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-101) and index.
Contents:
Historical context -- The importance of the work -- Critical reception -- The notebooks to The idiot -- The evidence from Dostoevsky's correspondence -- Personal elements in The idiot -- The literary subtext -- Composition -- The narrator -- The psychological backdrop -- The moral level -- The metaphysical-religious level -- Various novelistic devices.
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