T. A. Kasatkina. Dostoevsky as a philosopher and theologian: An artistic method of expression: A monograph

Abstract

Kasatkina, T. (2019). Dostoevsky as a philosopher and theologian: An artistic method of expression: A monograph. Moscow: Vodoley. (In Russ.)

T. Kasatkina’s new monograph consists of three parts: the theoretical and methodological first part presents arguments for the subject-subject method of reading and understanding of a work of fiction; the second and third parts are devoted to Notes from the Underground [Zapiski iz podpolia] and fiction fragments from A Writer’s Diary [Dnevnik pisatelya]. In this respect, the innovative approach of the book seems obvious: Kasatkina writes not so much about the content of the writer’s religious and philosophical ideas, but about the ways to understand them in accordance with the author’s intention. In addition, she offers an explanation of the implicit presence of these ideas in a work of fiction, which prompts the need for a philological analysis of the composition and imagery of such a work. This, in turn, gives rise to the ‘inevitability of philology’ asserted by Kasatkina.