“I am a great, great sinner”: The Theology of Sin in Crime and Punishment and The Idiot by Tatyana A. Kasatkina

“…In Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky tried to write down his views plainly, thus arousing sharp rejection from the editor of the Russian Messenger of the chapter about the reading of the Gospel. …”
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THE POLEMICS AS A DIALOGUE: DOSTOEVSKY IN A CONTROVERSY WITH TOLSTOY by Vladimir Nikolaevich Zakharov

“…In the Diary of a Writer of July-August 1877 Dostoevsky argues with Tolstoy about the eighth and the last part of the novel Anna Karenina, rejected by the publishers of The Russian Messenger and was soon published as a separate book. …”
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