tMoP, Chap 11..The Walk

[Richard Ryan]

That allusion (to the "The Eternal Husband") leaps out off the page.  No doubt a Dostoevsky scholar would find similar winks and allusions to the author's "future" work scattered throughout the text.  

Ultimately I'll want to argue this novel is centrally about art as a way of filtering some of the most painful aspects of life - and a passing allusion to an unwritten work such as the reference you flag, Mark, suggests that the D. of TMoP is turning his life into art relentlessly, often unconsciously.


--- On Sat, 11/1/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> p 139..."eternal lodger"....surely an allusion to
> Dostoevsky's novella,
> The Eternal Husband:
> http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553214444...unwritten
> yet in Dosteovsky's real life, therefore 
> another foreshadowed work in TMoP, like The Demons.