“I want to live for immortality”. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky in search of God Cover Image
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„Vreau să trăiesc pentru nemurire”. Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski în căutarea lui Dumnezeu
“I want to live for immortality”. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky in search of God

Author(s): Ioniţă Apostolache
Subject(s): Russian Literature, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Renaşterea Cluj
Keywords: Dostoevsky; Russia; Christian existentialism; apology; freedom;

Summary/Abstract: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky represents in terms of value one of the highest peaks of Russian Christian literature. His works present images, typologies, directions of thought and interpretation, in different contexts of existence of a nation grafted on the values of the Orthodox faith and Tradition. In this study we try to use the confessional elements of the existentialist thinking of the great Russian literature. Starting from the presentation of his life and works, we come to discover the Christian essence of his message. This, almost every time encrypted by types and symbols, represents in fact a valuable confession and apology of the orthodox meaning of existence. In contrast and for a better understanding, the great Dostoevsky also speaks of a telluric existence, passionate, deprived of the freedom of faith in God. In this respect, we have resorted to an apologetic analysis on the idea of freedom in “The Legend of the Great Inquisitor”, a masterful chapter from Dostoevsky’s masterpiece “The Karamazov Brothers”.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2020
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 18-28
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian
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