A fallible narrator and an inscrutable object: desire as structure in Dostoevsky's The Eternal Husband.
This article argues that one of the means by which Dostoevsky achieves polyphony in the limited point-of-view narration of The Eternal Husband (1870) is through the tension between the character Velchaninov's overt aversion and his subterranean attraction to Trusotsky, the cuckold of the title. Whil...
| Publicado en: | Studies in East European Thought Vol. 77; no. 5; pp. 921 - 934 |
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