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-When reason is not enough to grasp the paradoxes and riddles of life, then faith must come to terms with them. It is both refreshing and liberating that Cicovacki, a professor of philosophy not literature, avoids the jargon and cant of literary studies and subsequently feels no need to bow before the altars of various distracting postmodern pieties. This is a solid work of scholarship and common sense... Recommended.- --D. Pesta, Choice -Fedor Dostoevskii is commonly perceived as a gloomy writer who focused on the dark side of life, on crime, madness, injustice, and suffering. Predrag Cicovacki finds that, while Dostoevskii's uncompromising realism led him to depict the manifest evil in the world, his optimistic faith that life has meaning is always discernible. . . . Cicovacki makes a thoughtful case for Dostoevskii's optimism. . . . [H]e frequently interweaves his study with speculative connections between Dostoevskii's fiction and numerous artists, writers, thinkers, and philosophers.- --Diane Oenning Thompson, Slavic Review -[A] lively and absorbing journey... Cicovacki's discriminating and subtle criticism challenges many fixed assumptions about Dostoevsky's writings and worldview- --Robert L. Jackson, author of Dostoevsky's Quest for Form and Dialogues with Dostoevsky -This book is a philosophical investigation of a paradox: How does Dostoevsky succeed in uplifting people's hearts by telling tales full of sound and fury? Predrag Cicovacki's answer is an inspiring offer to read Dostoevsky's classics a new, with a figure in the carpet woven by Hegel.- --Horst-JUrgen Gerigk, editor-in-chief of Dostoevsky Studies -[Q]uite possibly the best single volume written in English on the greatest writer of the Nineteenth Century.- --Nalin Ranasinghe, author of The Soul of Socrates and Socrates in the Underworld -[I]nteresting and enthralling.- --Ruben Apressyan, Head of the Department of Ethics at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences -No serious student of the writer can afford to overlook this penetrating, erudite and insightful study.- --Joseph Frank, author, Dostoevsky; Stanford University -Cicovacki summarizes Dostoevsky's religious and moral positions and those of his characters in the light of later critics and earlier thinkers and artists. Whether one accepts or rejects the summaries, the book provokes serious thinking.- --Robert Belknap, professor emeritus and director of university seminars, Columbia University; author, The Genesis of The Brothers Karamazov: The Aesthetics, Ideology, and Psychology of Making a Text

When reason is not enough to grasp the paradoxes and riddles of life, then faith must come to terms with them. It is both refreshing and liberating that Cicovacki, a professor of philosophy not literature, avoids the jargon and cant of literary studies and subsequently feels no need to bow before the altars of various distracting postmodern pieties. This is a solid work of scholarship and common sense... Recommended. --D. Pesta, Choice Fedor Dostoevskii is commonly perceived as a gloomy writer who focused on the dark side of life, on crime, madness, injustice, and suffering. Predrag Cicovacki finds that, while Dostoevskii's uncompromising realism led him to depict the manifest evil in the world, his optimistic faith that life has meaning is always discernible. . . . Cicovacki makes a thoughtful case for Dostoevskii's optimism. . . . [H]e frequently interweaves his study with speculative connections between Dostoevskii's fiction and numerous artists, writers, thinkers, and philosophers. --Diane Oenning Thompson, Slavic Review [A] lively and absorbing journey... Cicovacki's discriminating and subtle criticism challenges many fixed assumptions about Dostoevsky's writings and worldview --Robert L. Jackson, author of Dostoevsky's Quest for Form and Dialogues with Dostoevsky This book is a philosophical investigation of a paradox: How does Dostoevsky succeed in uplifting people's hearts by telling tales full of sound and fury? Predrag Cicovacki's answer is an inspiring offer to read Dostoevsky's classics a new, with a figure in the carpet woven by Hegel. --Horst-Jurgen Gerigk, editor-in-chief of Dostoevsky Studies [Q]uite possibly the best single volume written in English on the greatest writer of the Nineteenth Century. --Nalin Ranasinghe, author of The Soul of Socrates and Socrates in the Underworld [I]nteresting and enthralling. --Ruben Apressyan, Head of the Department of Ethics at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Ac

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