The Life of Dostoevsky - The Life of Dostoevsky

Japanese: ドストエフスキイの生活 - ドストエフスキイのせいかつ
The Life of Dostoevsky - The Life of Dostoevsky
A full-length critical essay by Kobayashi Hideo. It was serialized in the January 1935 to March 1937 issues of Bungakukai and published by Sogensha in May 1939. It traces the turbulent life of Dostoevsky, including his exile to Siberia, his love affair with a married woman, his marriage and preoccupation with gambling, and his journalistic activities, and highlights the powerful imagination of Dostoevsky, who could be called a visionary, and the confrontation with modern Western thought that intellectuals in 19th century Imperial Russia had to face. It is a critical essay that poses a major question for the literary world in the late 1930s, shows the potential of criticism as literature, and marks a turning point in the history of Dostoevsky's reception in Japan.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
小林秀雄の長編評論。《文学界》1935年1月号~37年3月号に連載され,39年5月創元社より刊行。シベリア流刑,人妻との恋愛,結婚と賭博へののめり込み,ジャーナリスティックな活動など,波乱に富んだドストエフスキーの生涯をたどりながら,幻視者ともいうべきドストエフスキーの強烈な想像力と,19世紀の帝政ロシアの知識人が直面しなければならなかった近代西欧思想との対決という問題を浮彫りにしている。1930年代後半の文壇に大きな問題を投げかけると同時に,文学としての批評の可能性を示し,かつ日本におけるドストエフスキー受容史に一時期を画した評論である。

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