Rusko a západ z perspektivy F. M. Dostojevského
Russia and the West through the Eyes of F. M. Dostoyevsky

Author(s): Lenka Odehnalová
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Russian Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: F. M. Dostoyevsky; Russia; the West; Winter Notes on Summer Impressions; Diary of a Writer;
Summary/Abstract: The author is concerned with the relationship between Russia and the West through the eyes of the Russian writer F. M. Dostoyevsky. In the 19th century, this issue was crucial for the Russian intellectuals and almost everybody was somehow concerned with it; besides F. M. Dostoyevsky, most notably N. M. Karamzin, A. S. Pushkin and all of the so-called slavophiles and westernists including I. S. Turgenev, N. J. Danilevsky or A. I. Hercen. The paper seeks to analyse and compare the attitudes of F. M. Dostoyevsky towards the so-called West by comparing two works - the essayWinter Notes on Summer Impressions and the multi-genre work Diary of a Writer. The author draws attention to the specific features of Dostoyevskyʼs perception of the West and the terminology used in these works. She accentuates the ambivalence in Dostoyevskyʼs perception of Western civilization, pointing at levels where the writerʼs critical thinking is manifested.

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