Academic literature on the topic 'Father Zosima'

This article comments on one detail of the artistic world of the novella Uncle’s Dream. The mention of monk Misail in Svetozersky Hermitage is considered as a topographic sign, which allows one to accurately determine the local attribution of Dostoevsky’s text. According to the author of the article, the prototype of the priest is Father Macarius (Mikhail Yakovlevich Glukharev), also known as “the Apostle of the Altai Land”. The author introduces into scholarly circulation M. Ya. Glukharev’s autograph found in Barnaul and analyses the missionary activity of the Archimandrite and the reasons for his getting closer to Tobolsk Decembrists M. A. Fonvizin and his wife N. D. Fonvizina, P. S. Bobrischev-Pushkin, and P. N. Svistunov. The paper also discusses the question of F. M. Dostoevsky’s interest in the personality of the Archimandrite and the channels through which the writer could know about the old man: Fonvizin’s circle, the book about father Macarius of his succеssоr S. Landyshev, Dostoevsky’s Semipalatinsk fellow ethnographer N. A. Abramov, or oral legends, including raskolnik ones. The extant humorous stories about the Archimandrite might have served as an impetus for the comic transformation of his image in the novella Uncle’s Dream, in which the writer easily and ironically used facts known to him encrypting Father Macarius and using the secular name Mikhail. In the writer’s later works, the figure of Macarius is presented in the rough drafts of the novel The Brothers Karamazov and “the monk of Obdor” is included in the environment of Elder Zosima in the final text of the work. Long before the emergence of the conception of The Brothers Karamazov, M. Ya. Glukharev becomes not only a catalyst in the creative process and one of the prototypes for Dostoevsky, but also an example of the “romantic missionary”, a popular spiritual leader and reformer of the Church.

The paper deals with Gogol’s “Dead Souls” and Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov”. The author investigates main ideas, motives, plot coincidences, which are core for the works. The word of the Holy Scripture clearly permeates the language of the works by Gogol and Dostoyevsky, forming the stylistic direction of the narrative with its inherent didacticism and emphasizing the credibility of the original Source. The aim of the Bible intertext is to sacralize the whole of the text. The writers’ techniques of retrospection enhance the reader’s attention and actualize pivotal biblical formulas. The researcher states that some episodes of “The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants” by Dostoyevsky cover the ideas of “Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends” by Gogol, and also extend the content components of the statements articulated by the heroes’ of the second volume of “Dead Souls”. The chapter of “The Brothers Karamazov” called “Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zosima” by its style, didactic pathos, plot, motive combinations and the names of the sub-chapters reminds “Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends”. Gogol’s phrase “Love us black, anyone can love us white” repeatedly echoes in the replicas of the characters of “The Brothers Karamazov” and becomes universalized to the formula: “Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God’s creation… If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things… And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love”. The image of Troyka (Carriage-and-Three) makes the image of Russia in the studied works by Gogol and Dostoevsky more profound, accumulating the core idea of the writers – the revival of society. ‘Gesture situations’ allow the writers to describe a psychological image of the characters in detail and to relate their spiritual movement with a millenary dimension of existence.

AbstractThis article examines the influence of Fyodor Dostoevsky on Albert Camus's political philosophy of revolt. The aim is to clarify Camus's reactions to the problems of absurdity, nihilism, and transcendence through an analysis of his literary and philosophical engagement with Dostoevsky. I make three related claims. First, I claim that Camus's philosophy of revolt is informed in crucial ways by Dostoevsky's accounts of religious transcendence and political nihilism. Second, that Camus's conceptualization of the tension between nihilism and transcendence corresponds to and is personified by the dialogue between Ivan Karamazov and Father Zossima in Dostoevsky'sThe Brothers Karamazov. Finally, that Camus uses his novelThe Plagueto bridge the moral and metaphysical divide between these two characters. In particular, I argue that Camus offers a distinct vision of revolt inThe Plague, which clarifies both the practical implications of revolt and his philosophical rejoinder to Dostoevsky.

The dream about an earthly paradise, rediscovery of an original, absolutely harmonic paradisal life is, in Dostoevskij's opinion, one of the deepest and the most valuable dreams of the human heart. The spiritual course of any human being has its own history, it is born from thesis (babtism), goes through antithesis (crises) and finishes in synthesis (beauty). A man comes from the Eden Paradise and aims at heaven. So, a man in course of his spiritual life is in a real split into two paradises: the Eden Paradise from which he is coming from and the Kingdom of God where he is aiming at. The midpoint of the life course is accompanied by a crisis, that can also be described as separation from the the paradise. The characters of novels by Dostoevskij failed due to the fact, that they were not able to admit their presence between two "paradise states" and so their ideas about earthly paradise establishment were being corrupted. In our piece of work we are going to follow four trends: 1. Time corruption, incorrectly understood sense of history. The tendency to return back where a man came from, in an origenestic, cyclic interpretation of a comeback is apparent in a story The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. Another extreme shows marxism ideas going around Europe which deny both the importance and the sense of...