Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction

by Rowan Williams

2021-01-05 19:40:38

Rowan Williams explores the intricacies of speech, fiction, metaphor, and iconography in the works of one of literature''s most complex, and most complexly misunderstood, authors. Williams'' investigation focuses on the four major novels of Dostoevsk... Read more
Rowan Williams explores the intricacies of speech, fiction, metaphor, and iconography in the works of one of literature''s most complex, and most complexly misunderstood, authors. Williams'' investigation focuses on the four major novels of Dostoevsky''s maturity (Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Devils, and The Brothers Karamozov). He argues that understanding Dostoevsky''s style and goals as a writer of fiction is inseparable from understanding his religious commitments. Any reader who enters the rich and insightful world of Williams'' Dostoevsky will emerge a more thoughtful and appreciative reader for it. Less

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File size9 X 6 X 0.68 in
Print pages304
PublisherBaylor University Press
Publication date July 13, 2011
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781602583733
Rowan Williams is the former Archbishop of Canterbury and currently Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. The author of many important books from The Wound of Knowledge to On Augustine and The Tragi...

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