The Age of the Character as a Moral and Religious Problem in Dostoevsky's Pentateuch Cover Image

Възрастта на персонажа като морално-религиозен проблем в Петокнижието на Достоевски
The Age of the Character as a Moral and Religious Problem in Dostoevsky's Pentateuch

Author(s): Nikolay Neychev
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: Dostoevsky; time; age of character; restoring; redemption
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the problem of time and its influence on the moral world of the characters in Dostoevsky Pentateuch. It turns out that the age of the hero determines his place in the spiritual scale of values, where the highest value is childhood, and the lowest degree is old age. Dostoevsky believes that it is possible to save man from the defamatory power of chronos. Remembrances and suffering return the child's guise, restoring in the person the "image and likeness" of God.