[PDF.38xf] MiataDrivers - Redemption and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky's Economy of Salvation and Antisemitism (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory)

"Can we read Dostoevsky without worrying about his Antisemitism? Susan McReynolds makes a convincing case that we cannot. She places Dostoevsky's Jewish obsession at the center of his imagination. No one with an interest in

Dostoevsky's Russian chauvinism and antisemitism have long posed problems for his readers and critics. How could the author of "The Brothers Karamazov" also be the source of the slurs against Jews in "Diary of a Writer"? And where is the celebrated Christian humanist in the nationalist outbursts of "The Idiot"? These enigmas - the coexistence of humanism and hatred, faith and doubt - are linked, Susan McReynolds tells us, in "Redemption and the Merchant of God". Her book...