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A Complicated Case of Attribution of a Sketch to the Novel "Demons"

Author(s): Boris Nikolaevich Tikhomirov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: Dostoevsky; "Demons"; notebooks; manuscripts; attribution

Summary/Abstract: The Manuscript Department of the Pushkin House contains a page of miscellaneous sketches unreasonably attributed in the academic literature to the novels "Crime and Punishment" or "The Brothers Karamazov". The article’s author suggests attributing the above-noted sketches to the novel "Demons" and refers them to March and June of 1872. The portrait of a young girl in the inferior part of the page is considered as a probable author’s depiction of Liza Tushina.

  • Issue Year: 1/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 116-123
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English, Russian