Достоевски: животът и неговите проекции
Dostoevsky - Life and its Projections

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article are Dostoevsky's ideas about life, death and immortality, refracted through divergent and incompatible interpretations. Some aspects of the huge theme have been selected, and special emphasis is placed on the variety of ideas for the posthumous existence of man, launched by the writer. Dostoevsky's work constantly affirms and reaffirms the passionate and unquenchable thirst for life, which adds value to its every moment, despite its inherent and inalienable sorrows. In the present text the meaning that the writer attaches to the earthly being is commented on. Understood in this way, Dostoevsky's exceptional vital attitude was considered by some researchers to be at odds with the Christian one. The vitality of the writer is due to the constantly expressed belief that earthly life has a sequel. The article analyzes the arguments that the writer puts forward in favor of this idea. These are mostly arguments to the contrary – if death puts an absolute end to our being, then life has no meaning in any of its moments. The focus of this text is on the variety of ideas about the modes of the afterlife expressed in Dostoevsky's work, as well as on some of their emblematic interpretations by his researchers. The summary of the article states that Dostoevsky escapes from the web of contradictory interpretations and it becomes clear that an unambiguous version of the "last questions" that tormented him is impossible. Since man is a secret, as the writer says, such a secret is he himself, and we are still far from unraveling it.

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