Life, Self and God
Fall 2008
Six consecutive Tuesdays,
10-12 pm
Instructor:
Svitlana Kobets, PhD, LMS
Acclaimed as one of the most insightful, ingenious and influential writers of
modernity, Fedor Dostoevsky contributed to the world’s classics four
masterworks that employ the engaging plots of murder novels as they contemplate
eternal questions of human existence. Join us and explore two of these
celebrated masterpieces, Crime and
Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Our discussions of
these novels’ major themes—selfhood, faith, love, family, society and
ethics—will be accompanied by background lectures that set Dostoevsky’s works
in the context of Russian and world history, literature and culture. We will
employ a variety of presentations, video images and handouts.
Readings:
Fedor Dostoevsky,
Crime and Punishment, transl. by
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Fedor Dostoevsky,
The Brothers Karamazov, transl. by
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Additional Readings
Discussion schedule:
October 14, CRIME
AND PUNISHMENT, Parts 1, 2, 3
October 21, CRIME
AND PUNISHMENT, Parts 4, 5, 6
October 28, CRIME
AND PUNISHMENT, Epilogue
THE BROTHERS
KARAMAZOV, Part 1, Books 1-6
November 4, THE BROTHERS
KARAMAZOV, Part 2, Book 6
November 11, THE
BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, Part 3, Books 7-9
November 18, THE
BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, Part 4, Books 10-12, epilogue
DREAM
OF A RIDICULOUS MAN (short story)