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Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self charts a unifying path through Dostoevsky's artistic journey to solve the ""mystery"" of the human being. Starting from the unusual forms of intimacy shown by characters seeking to lose themselves within larger collective selves, Yuri Corrigan approaches the fictional works as a continuous experimental canvas on which Dostoevsky explored the problem of selfhood through recurring symbolic and narrative paradigms. Presenting new readings of such works as The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov, Corrigan tells the story of Dostoevsky's career-long journey to overcome the pathology of collectivism by discovering a passage into the wounded, embattled, forbidding, revelatory landscape of the psyche

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Yuri Corrigan is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature in the Department of World Languages & Literatures at Boston University

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