From Silence-Weapon to Silence-Dialogue (and Back?). Raskol’nikov’s Paradoxical Path in Crime and Punishment. The article explores the phenomenon of silence in Crime and Punishment as an expression of the reverse logic of Dostoevsky’s world. Silence in Dostoevsky escapes any attempt at a univocal interpretation, as the use of molchanie and tishina in his novels suggests. It is an emblem of the mistery of human existence because it concerns the character’s oscillation between the closure in himself and the opening to the other, between the need to express himself and the awareness of never being able to do it properly. Two levels of the functioning of silence are taken into account: as a stylistic technique used by Dostoevsky to enhance the dramatic effect of some scenes and convey the subtlest nuances of the character’s mood; and as a metaphor for Raskol’nikov’s dramatic existential journey from self-affirmation to the affirmation of the other’s being.
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Titolo del capitolo
От молчания-оружия к молчанию-диалогу (и обратно?). Парадоксальный путь Раскольникова в Преступлении и наказании
Autori
Raffaella Vassena
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0122-3.13
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Ф.М. Достоевский: Юмор, парадоксальность, демонтаж
Curatori
Dar'ja Farafonova, Laura Salmon, Stefano Aloe
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
222
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0122-3
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0121-6
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0122-3
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0123-0
Collana
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
ISSN della collana
2612-7687
e-ISSN della collana
2612-7679