Dostoevsky at 200

Marking the bicentenary of Dostoevsky's birth, Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity takes the writer's art—specifically the tension between experience and formal representation—as its central theme. While many critical approaches to Dostoevsky's works focus on spiritual and philosophical dilemmas, this volume instead explores questions of design and narrative to investigate Dostoevsky and the novel from a multitude of perspectives.

Contributors situate Dostoevsky's formal choices in narrative, plot, genre, and characterisation, as well as the novel itself within the context of modernity. They examine how the experience of modernity led to Dostoevsky's particular engagement with form. Conceived as a forum for younger scholars pioneering new directions in Dostoevsky scholarship, this volume asks how narrative and genre shape Dostoevsky's works, and how they influence the representation of modernity. Of interest not only to readers and scholars of Russian literature but also to those curious about the novel as a genre more broadly, Dostoevsky at 200 is pathbreaking in its approach to understanding Dostoevsky's contribution to the novel as a form.