Dostoevsky and English Modernism 1900-1930

di Peter Kaye (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2006

When Constance Garnett's translations (1910-20) made Dostoevsky's novels accessible in England for the first time they introduced a disruptive and liberating literary force, and English novelists had to confront a new model and rival. The writers who are the focus of this study - Lawrence, Woolf, Bennett, Conrad, Forster, Galsworthy and James - either admired or feared Dostoevsky as a monster who might dissolve all literary and cultural distinctions. Though their responses differed greatly, these writers were unanimous in their inability to recognize Dostoevsky as a literary artist. They viewed him instead as a psychologist, a mystic, a prophet and, in the cases of Lawrence and Conrad, a hated rival who compelled creative response. This study constructs a map of English modernist novelists' misreadings of Dostoevsky, and in so doing it illuminates their aesthetic and cultural values and the nature of the modern English novel.

• Autore: Peter Kaye
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2006
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 260 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 154 mm
• Peso: 398 gr.
• EAN: 9780521024198

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