Chapter 25: The Book of the Impostors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. PREFACE xi
5. TRANSLITERATION AND TEXTS xv
6. PART I: SOME "STRANGE, 'UNFINISHED' IDEAS"
7. Chapter 1: Introduction 3
8. Chapter 2: "The Unhappiest of Mortals" 9
9. Chapter 3: Khlestakov in Wiesbaden 25
10. Chapter 4: "Our Poor Little Defenseless Boys and Girls" 42
11. Chapter 5: The Sources of Crime and Punishment 60
12. Chapter 6: From Novella to Novel 80
13. Chapter 7: A Reading of Crime and Punishment 96
14. PART II: REMARRIAGE
15. Chapter 8: "A Little Diamond" 151
16. Chapter 9: The Gambler 170
17. Chapter 10: Escape and Exile 184
18. Chapter 11: Turgenev and Baden-Baden 204
19. Chapter 12: Geneva: Life among the Exiles 223
20. PART III: A RUSSIAN IDEAL
21. Chapter 13: In Search of a Novel 241
22. Chapter 14: "A Perfectly Beautiful Man" 256
23. Chapter 15: An Inconsolable Father 276
24. Chapter 16: Across the Alps 294
25. Chapter 17: The Idiot 316
26. Chapter 18: Historical Visions 342
27. PART IV: THE PAMPHLET AND THE POEM
28. Chapter 19: The Life of a Great Sinner 365
29. Chapter 20: The Eternal Husband 382
30. Chapter 21: Fathers, Sons, and Stavrogin 396
31. Chapter 22: Exile's Return 413
32. Chapter 23: History and Myth in The Devils: I 435
33. Chapter 24: History and Myth in The Devils: II 453
34. Chapter 25: The Book of the Impostors 472
35. Chapter 26: Conclusion 499
36. ABBREVIATIONS 503
37. NOTES 505
38. INDEX 517