Dostoevsky's Graphic Code: The Writer's Drawings
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Dostoevsky's Graphic Code: The Writer's Drawings
49.99 €
This book presents a scholarly description of F. M. Dostoevsky's ideography. A graduate of architecture, the writer was proficient in drawing and often used it in his creative work, prefacing the creation of a literary character with a portrait—the "face of an idea," as he called it. The writer's manuscripts contain over a hundred portrait drawings, approximately five hundred depictions of lancet windows and Gothic arches, and several thousand calligraphic notes executed in various writing styles. These materials are closely linked with the surrounding rough notes, forming a unified semantic whole. The book's content is comprised of a reading of the writer's drawings, alongside the surrounding notes, and an extensive historical and literary commentary on them.
In the pages of Dostoevsky's notebooks, we find graphic portraits of Raskolnikov, Sonya Marmeladova ("Crime and Punishment"), Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky, Karmazinov ("Demons"), characters from the first edition of "The Idiot," and other works by the writer. There are also portraits of people familiar to the writer personally or through images: I. S. Turgenev, V. G. Belinsky, M. M. Dostoevsky (the writer's brother), W. Shakespeare, Tikhon Zadonsky, T. N. Granovsky, and many others. A special section is made up of the writer's architectural drawings, as well as a number of calligraphic notes in which he conceptualized the character of his characters ("Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin," "Raskolnikov," "The Great Writer," and others).
The book introduces Dostoevsky's drawings into the everyday life of Russian readers, just as the drawings of A.S. Pushkin were introduced about a hundred years ago, and is intended for both professional philologists and a wide range of readers interested in the work of F.M. Dostoevsky.
In the pages of Dostoevsky's notebooks, we find graphic portraits of Raskolnikov, Sonya Marmeladova ("Crime and Punishment"), Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky, Karmazinov ("Demons"), characters from the first edition of "The Idiot," and other works by the writer. There are also portraits of people familiar to the writer personally or through images: I. S. Turgenev, V. G. Belinsky, M. M. Dostoevsky (the writer's brother), W. Shakespeare, Tikhon Zadonsky, T. N. Granovsky, and many others. A special section is made up of the writer's architectural drawings, as well as a number of calligraphic notes in which he conceptualized the character of his characters ("Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin," "Raskolnikov," "The Great Writer," and others).
The book introduces Dostoevsky's drawings into the everyday life of Russian readers, just as the drawings of A.S. Pushkin were introduced about a hundred years ago, and is intended for both professional philologists and a wide range of readers interested in the work of F.M. Dostoevsky.
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