The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak

by John Givens

Book Overview

Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters "sinning their way to Jesus." In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky's novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in the nineteenth century and the growth of secularism it stimulated made an earnest affirmation of Jesus in literature highly problematic. If they affirmed Jesus too directly,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501761668
• ISBN13: 9781501761669
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher