Chapter
Teachers of novelistic form
4 The heritage: history and philosophy
Reconstruction 'in another fashion'
Garnering in commitment: the journal Time
The heritage: general conclusion
The legend: the lazar-house of the novels
The legend: from the characters in the novels to the creator
Reality: medical file from 1821 to 1857
How the illness was experienced
Diagnosis of neurologists: renewed polemics
Solvency: the wager of the novel
Money and the creative process: speech for the prosecution
Money and the creative process: speech for the defence
The mediating function of money: the ordeal of the world of thenovels
PART II The process of creation
Activity by day and improvised writing
8 The great dialogue: the news item
News items in creative research
The news item inserted in the novel
Supercomposition of the news item
The book of contemporary Russian life
9 The great dialogue: migrant images
The novel: chosen place of literature
The first dialogue with literature: Poor Folk
The literary hero and the historical hero
Migrant images of the arts
The reality of the news item
The incarnation of reality
11 The unity of thought in the novel
The brief Balzacian temptation
From different characters with varied experiences to different experiences within the same person
12 The summit of creativeinterrogation: 'The Life of a GreatSinner'
The Emperor' or the laboratory experiment
The technique of mimic adolescence
'Atheism', again the novel of crisis
From the novel of crisis to the novel of a life
The Life of a Great Sinner': matching theme and technique
The Life of a Great Sinner': Jacob's night
The structure of The Life of a Great Sinner':the four freedoms
The Life of a Great Sinner': the dream in letters
The fertile death of the plan
13 A Raw Youth: reasons for choice
In the thicket of the manuscript
The methodological dilemma
14 A Raw Youth: the appearance of the vision
The empire or republic of children
The novel of the 'predator'
The messenger: Fyodor Fyodorovich
15 A Raw Youth: the human architecture
Gravitational disposition
The horizontal structure: brothers
Two rival systems of gravity
The vertical relationship of parenthood
16 A Raw Youth: the Idea of the novel
Confusion of critical ideas
The formulation of the Idea within the hero's mind
Relationship of Idea and plot
Technique of final gestures
17 The composition of the novel in Dostoyevsky's work: choice of chronicle form
Visible dialogue: ideological polemics and aesthetic competition
The architectonics of Lermontov
The chronicler in Pushkin
The Dostoyevskian chronicler in The Devils
Composition in chronicle form from Poor Folk to The Brothers Karamazov
18 Composition of the novel inA Raw Youth: chronicle and stories
Research ends and writing begins
The sovereignty of the writer in the chronicle
PART III in Time and space in the world of the novels
19 The master of men and hours
The sovereignty of the writer in the notebook
The truth and limits of polyphony in the novel
20 Chronology and temporality in The Idiot
The Beethovenian crescendo of the first part
Alternation of accumulations and explosions in the second part
The two fantastic nights of the third part
Ritardando and crescendo at the beginning of the fourth Part
The intense pressure and the power of time in the finale
Remission of time in the epilogue
The spiral curve of The Idiot
The Piranesi staircase of The Devils
Contraction of time in the creative process
The spiral and its golden number
22 Time of power and power of time
The false abolition of time
Chronometry of the free act
Dimension of actions and freedom
The painful accession of the hero to the time of power
23 The havens of eternity
The experience of eternity
The Age of Gold, or eternity found again
The myth of the eternal return
24 The dream of space and the space of the real
The dream of infinite space
25 The inventory and the expressionist orchestration of scenery and lighting
Dramatic power of scenery
The calm eye of the storm
The lighting of The Last Day of Pompeii
26 The semantics of colour
Vanity and truth of statistics
The eyes of the writer and the 'farsighted myopia' of Remizov
The various meanings of green
The red blood of the dream
27 The hero in space: sighting and seeing
Provincial Russia in the last novels
Essence of the landscape seen by the hero
The slanting rays of the setting sun
The way out of the air lock
The space of the psychodrama
Dostoyevsky and the Process of Literary Creation
( Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature )
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