DOSTOIEVSKI – SON COMBAT CONTRE LA HAINE
DOSTOYEVSKY - HIS FIGHT AGAINST HATRED

Summary/Abstract: World literature has accompanied, as a faithful witness, the human being’s evolution and dilemmas, reflecting them metaphorically most often. The recurring topics of life and death in world literature have been often replaced with complementary symbols or symbolic actions, such as those pertaining to Eros or to Thanatos. On the other hand, disease, ever since the ancient times of Ghilgameş (who treats death as a sort of disease), has made the object of some of the most well-known and widely appreciated literary masterpieces. Dostoievski makes no exception, his work being pervaded by the values of an analytically assumed and profound Christianity, by the deep understanding of the used concepts. Being close to death, following the false and tormenting death sentence, captive in the middle of people belonging to morbid typologies, the Russian writer has succeeded in seeing through a „quijotesque” prism, a christian one, as real as possible, the duality of good and evil. Devoted to the world and to the spiritual destiny of the people where he was born, Dostoievski never abandoned the fight against the worst evil, that is hatred.

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