Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Classics
5. One Poor Folk and House of the Dead 9
6. Two. The Idiot 29
7. Three. Demons 46
8. Four. War and Peace 64
9. Part II. The Russian Tradition
10. Five. Natasha’S Dance: A Cultural History of Russia 87
11. Six. A Life of Pushkin 107
12. Seven. Oblomov and Goncharov 118
13. Eight. Lydia Ginzburg, on Psychological Prose 129
14. Nine. Richard Pipes, Russian Conservatism and its Critics 143
15. Part III. The Dostoevskian Orbit
16. Ten. Dostoevsky And Anti-Semitism 159
17. Eleven. In Search of Dostoevsky 173
18. Twelve. Arkady Kovner 185
19. Thirteen. J. M. Coetzee, The Master of Petersburg 196
20. Fourteen. Dostoevsky and Evil 204
21. Part IV. Twentieth-Century Issues
22. Fifteen. Anton Chekhov 219
23. Sixteen. The Triumph of Abram Tertz 230
24. Seventeen. D. S. Mirsky 249
25. Eighteen. Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature 261
26. Index 287