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| ISBN: | 9781400869510
140086951X
0691063427
9780691063423
9780691610047
0691610045
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | What place do Dostoevsky's works occupy in the history of the novel? To answer this question, Michael Holquist focuses on the formal aspects of Dostoevskian narrative. The author argues that the novel is a genre that constantly seeks its own identity: we still do not know what it is, since the uniqueness of its members defines the class to which it belongs. This anomaly explains the central role of the novel for Russians, perplexed as they were in the nineteenth century by idiosyncrasies that hindered development of a coherent national identity. Michael Holquist shows that the generic imp.
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| Other form: | Print version: Holquist, Michael, 1935- Dostoevsky and the novel. Princeton, New Jersey ; Surrey, England : Princeton University Press, ©1977 xiii, 202 pages Princeton legacy library. 9780691610047
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