Софийност и инферналност: героините на Достоевски
Sophianity and Infernality: Dostoyevsky’s Heroines

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses some of the most famous assessments in humanitarian literature regarding the female characters in Dostoevsky’s works, with a special emphasis on N. Berdyaev’s views. The author presents Berdyaev’s opinion, according to which the heroines in Dostoevsky’s novels serve only as a stroke of fate for the male heroes and have no independent significance. The article points out that Berdyaev’s interpretation that, while Dostoyevsky’s male characters express the ideas of Reason, the female characters embody elemental forces, is preconceived and only describes the philosopher’s own point of view. Four arguments against Berdyaev’s thesis are presented; the most important of these is that the female characters in Dostoevsky’s works are incarnations – in different degrees – of the principle of Sophianity.

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