Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form: Suspense, Closure, Minor Characters

by Greta Matzner-Gore

Three questions of novelistic form preoccupied Fyodor Dostoevsky throughout his career: how to build suspense, how to end a narrative effectively, and how to distribute attention among major and minor characters. For Dostoevsky, these were much more than practical questions about novelistic craft; they were ethical questions as well. Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form traces Dostoevsky's indefatigable investigations into the ethical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810141973
• ISBN13: 9780810141971
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.9"