Conversations with Dostoevsky: On God, Russia, Literature, and Life

by George Pattison

Conversations with Dostoevsky presents a series of fictional conversations taking place between November 2018 and Spring 2019 in the narrator's Glasgow apartment and elsewhere in the city. At the beginning of the conversations, the narrator has been reading Dostoevsky's story A Gentle Spirit, which concludes with a dramatic statement of protest atheism. This statement suggests that love is not possible in a purely mechanical universe in which all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198881541
• ISBN13: 9780198881544
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"