Dostoyevsky at 200

Catch up on all things Dostoyevsky from "The Brothers Karamazov" to "The Adolescent!" In "Dostoyevsky at 200: The Russian Novel Between Tradition and Modernity," University of Toronto Professor Kate Holland provides an overview and analysis of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky's literary catalog.
This presentation explores the author's psychological insights, examinations of faith and doubt, protagonists, and views on the dramatic social changes which took place in Russia following the Great Reforms of the 1860s.
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Timestamps
00:00 Dr. Holland's presentation
43:20-1:04 Q&A session
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This video was originally recorded November 2021.
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[@virginiasoskin9082]

I am interested in Russian history, especially 1880-1930. Other than history and historical bios of the Romanovs, Kerensky and such, I have read a variety of Russian plays, poetry, and novels such as Fathers and Sons and also some Bunin. I read Crime and Punishment as a high school student one summer -- I remember reading it by the town swimming pool -- quite a difference between that setting and a Russian city in another century! And then just this past year during COVID isolation I finally got through The Brothers Karamazov at age 71. Mercy me. It reminded me of War and Peace in which there are very long parts of the book that are sort of "asides", either religious or historical. I would like to read both novels again to let them soak in more. This was an excellent lecture; thank you so much.

[@RussianHistoryMuseum]

Virginia, thank you for your comment on this lecture and for your interest in our Second Saturdays series! As a result of this event, many of us at the museum decided another look into Dostoevsky just may be in order. We hope you will join us for next month’s presentation: www.russianhistorymuseum.org/event/alexis-in-america/.

[@evelynellison624]

His writings depict mankind repeating the errors of the past? The inability of man to learn from past errors?

[@MatthewHughes-tc5su]

Matthew Raphael Johnson does a 4 hour documentary that is far better than this chick that's reading Wikipedia