Turgenev’s “Knock… Knock... Knock!..”: The Riddle of the Story

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vi
3. Introductory Note ix
4. A Glance at the Essays xii
5. Fate, Freedom, and Responsibility
6. Moral-Philosophical Subtext in Pushkin’s The Stone Guest 2
7. Turgenev’s “Knock… Knock... Knock!..”: The Riddle of the Story 20
8. Polina and Lady Luck in Dostoevsky’s The Gambler 45
9. Pierre and Dolokhov at the Barrier: The Lesson of the Duel 71
10. Chance and Design: Anna Karenina’s First Meeting with Vronsky 81
11. Breaking the Moral Barrier: Anna Karenina’s Night Train to St. Petersburg 94
12. Uzhas in the Subtext: Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych 107
13. “What Time Is It? Where Are We Going?” Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard: The Story of a Verb 130
14. Two Kinds of Beauty 154
15. The Sentencing of Fyodor Karamazov 172
16. The Defiled and Defiling “Physiognomy” of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov 185
17. Dostoevsky’s “Anecdote from a Child’s Life”: A Case of Bifurcation 200
18. The Triple Vision: Dostoevsky’s “The Peasant Marey” 211
19. The Making of a Russian Icon: Solzhenitsyn’s “Matryona’s Home” 226
20. Critical Perspectives
21. Dostoevsky’s Concept of Reality and Its Representation in Art 239
22. In the Interests of Social Pedagogy: Maxim Gorky’s Polemic with Dostoevsky 261
23. Bakhtin’s Poetics of Dostoevsky and “Dostoevsky’s Christian Declaration of Faith” 277
24. Vyacheslav I. Ivanov’s Poem “Nudus Salta!” and the Purpose of Art 305
25. Poetry of Parting
26. Intimations of Mortality: Fyodor I. Tyutchev’s “In Parting there is a Lofty Meaning” 318
27. The Poetry of Memory and the Memory of Poetry: Igor Severyanin’s “No More Than a Dream” 323
28. Supremum Vale: The Last Stanzas of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. Goethe, Zhukovsky, and the Decembrists 331
29. From the Other Shore: Nabokov’s Translation into Russian of Goethe’s “Dedication” to Faust 354
30. Index 366