{"product_id":"dostoevskys-secrets-reading-against-the-grain-paperback-softback-9780810139855","title":"Dostoevsky's Secrets; Reading Against the Grain (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810139855","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDostoevsky's Secrets\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReading Against the Grain\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarol Apollonio (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810139855\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 November 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 14.9 x 1.7 cm, 0.33 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIt is rare to come across a new interpretation of Dostoevskii that is both highly original and wholly convincing, but \u003ci\u003eDostoevsky's Secrets: Reading Against the Grain \u003c\/i\u003eachieves both with some style.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Slavonic and East European Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Apollonio's book refreshes our reading of Dostoevsky's novels by its close attention detail and connections to Russian culture.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Slavic and East European Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Carol Apollonio has written a profound book. A major contribution to Dostoevsky studies, \u003cem\u003eDostoevsky's Secrets: Reading Against the Grain\u003c\/em\u003e is packed with new insights into Dostoevsky's narrative strategies, his metaphysical thematic, his characters' psychologies, and the sexual substrata of his plots.\"\" - Deborah Martinsen, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Marvelously provocative. Apollonio pursues to its gaping end the radical Gogolian thought that words must lie, and thus the entire surface of a Dostoevskian novel--not only individual personalities within--is designed to deceive, to be prodded open and cleansed in the interests of a greater, counter-intuitive truth.\"\" - Caryl Emerson, Princeton University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhen Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a \"\"realist in a higher sense,\"\" it is because the facts are irrelevant to his truth. And it is in this spirit that Apollonio approaches Dostoevsky's work, reading through the facts-the text-of his canonical novels for the deeper truth that they distort, mask, and, ultimately, disclose. This sort of reading against the grain is, Apollonio suggests, precisely what these works, with their emphasis on the hidden and the private and their narrative reliance on secrecy and slander, demand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn each work Apollonio focuses on one character or theme caught in the compromising, self-serving, or distorting narrative lens. Who, she asks, really exploits whom in \u003cem\u003ePoor Folk\u003c\/em\u003e? Does \"\"White Nights\"\" ever escape the dream state? What is actually lost-and what is won-in \u003cem\u003eThe Gambler\u003c\/em\u003e? Is Svidrigailov, of such ill repute in \u003cem\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/em\u003e, in fact an exemplar of generosity and truth? Who, in \u003cem\u003eDemons\u003c\/em\u003e, is truly demonic? Here we see how Dostoevsky has crafted his novels to help us see these distorting filters and develop the critical skills to resist their anaesthetic effect. Apollonio's readings show how Dostoevsky's paradoxes counter and usurp our comfortable assumptions about the way the world is and offer access to a deeper, immanent essence. His works gain power when we read beyond the primitive logic of external appearances and recognize the deeper life of the text.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555666784536,"sku":"9780810139855","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/dostoevskys-secrets-reading-against-the-grain-paperback-softback-9780810139855","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}