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Dostoievski şi dimensiunile antieroului
Dostoevsky and the Dimensions of the Antihero

Author(s): Călin-Horia Bârleanu
Subject(s): Russian Literature
Published by: Editura Tracus Arte
Keywords: archetype; imago Christi; instinct; Christianity;

Summary/Abstract: Having a creation based on a Christian pattern, but also integrated into a universal cultural horizon, Dostoevsky was among the first writers to design, in all the psychological senses of the word, the human typology of the antihero. The enormous influence of the Russian writer can be identified in the universal literature, especially in the way in which such an unusual character began to respond, ideologically, to a different need, felt by literature consumers. From the ancient tragedy to the novel and the cinema, the antihero has different masks and, obviously, different forms of manifestation, within the same psychological matrix. Weakness, that sometimes is real or apparent, cowardice and fighting avoidance, along with a specific dimension of the trickster archetype, define the protein figure of the antihero.

  • Issue Year: XVII/2021
  • Issue No: 1 (33)
  • Page Range: 25-41
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Romanian