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Ë ROM JOSEPH CONRAD to Vladimir Nabokov to Karel C apek, great writers (often too close to the Russian border for comfort) have censured Dostoevsky for the excess, hysteria and sentimentalism of his work. The influence of the Russian novelist upon these later writers, however, is often quite apparent in their works, and it betrays an undeniable fascination with Dostoevskyâs own particular genius. This essay examines such a claim on the basis of a psychological and narrative comparison of Dostoevskyâs early novel Ë The Double (1846) with the first part of Karel Capekâs novel Hordubal, the first work of what is generally considered his masterpiece in the novel genre, the trilogy Hordubal, Meteor, and An Ordinary Life.1 From a narrative standpoint, the two novels are quite different: Dostoevskyâs story is told from a thirdË person external viewpoint, while Capekâs is a first-person internal monologue. On the other hand, both of these works are studies in schizophrenia; in each, the reader witnesses the gradual disintegration of a consciousness at war with itself. In addition, each elicits sympathy for its protagonist in remarkably similar ways. The aim of this comparative investigation is twofold. First, by comparing the methods of psychological
Comparative Literature – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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