tMoP, Chap 11..The Walk

[Bekah]

I totally agree,  Richard, and look forward to reading that.   Yes,   
there are lots of allusions to all of Dostoevsky's works - The  
Eternal Husband sticks out but I think The Brothers Karamazov is  
fairly obvious.   Also I understand that  Dostoevsky wrote as he  
developed his philosophical ideas so it would not in any way surprise  
me to find he'd been wrestling with the seeds of The Brothers  
Karamazov while writing Demons and continued to meditate on the Holy  
Fool stuff of The Idiot.

Bekah


On Nov 1, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Richard Ryan wrote:

> 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.