DOSTOJEVSKI O LJUBAVI I BESMRTNOSTI
DOSTOEVSKY ON LOVE AND lMMORTALlTY

Summary/Abstract: The author first published this text in 1932, in the journal Sovremennye zapiski (Contemporary papers). ln it he analyzes a less well known excerpt from Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's notes. This is a text that he wrote for himself, as the most intimate meditation at the moment of his first wife's death. The author believes that the metaphysics of death establishes all the problems of the other- worldly and worldly. This is why Dostoevsky's meditation develops into a grandiose ethical system that resolves the problem of the meaning/purpose of life, the meaning/purpose of love, the meaning/purpose of development and man's eternal aspiration to perfection. Additionally, the author attempts to find in that excerpts the aser to „the great psychological puzzlesf a lovee” where the spouses loved each other endlessly and immeasurably, but were not happy. ln the end the author points out the connection between the ideas of Dostoevsky and Plato's teaching about eros, in order to show to what extent Christian Platonism, cosmism and the idea of all-encompassing unity — the favorite ideas of Russian philosophy — are present in Dostoevsky's work.

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