Dostoevsky

André Gide

Sinopsis

In Dostoevsky, André Gide offers not a conventional biography but a penetrating critical meditation on the Russian novelist's art, psychology, and spiritual preoccupations. Gide examines the moral ambiguity, polyphonic characterization, and intense inward drama that define Dostoevsky's fiction, showing how novels such as The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment reshaped the modern psychological novel. Written with the clarity and suggestiveness of a major creative writer reflecting on another, the book belongs to the great European tradition of literary criticism in which interpretation becomes a form of intellectual self-discovery. Gide, one of the central figures of modern French literature and later a Nobel laureate, was uniquely equipped to write this study. His own fiction and essays repeatedly explored freedom, conscience, desire, and the divided self—themes that drew him naturally to Dostoevsky. Deeply engaged with questions of authenticity and moral conflict, Gide recognized in the Russian master a writer who exposed the unstable depths of human motive more radically than almost anyone before him. This book is especially recommended to readers interested in modernism, comparative literature, and the history of the novel. Gide's reading is elegant, incisive, and illuminating, making Dostoevsky an excellent companion both to Dostoevsky's fiction and to broader reflection on the moral and psychological possibilities of literature.

Disponible desde: 29/06/2026.

Longitud de impresión: 135 páginas.

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