Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. Poor Folk: The Body and the Book; 2. The Spirit of St. Petersburg: White Nights; 3. Purging Bad Money: The Gambler; 4. Crime and Punishment: Confessions and Slander in Action; 5. The Idiot's ""Vertical Temple"": The Holbein Christ and Ippolit's Confession; 6. The Demon of Doubt and the Revenge of the Neglected Son: Demons; 7. On Slander, Idolatry, and Imposters: Demons; 8. The Mothers Karamazov; 9. Conclusion.

About the Author

Carol Apollonio is an associate professor of the practice of Slavic language and literature at Duke University. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Reviews

"Carol Apollonio has written a profound book. A major contribution to Dostoevsky studies, Dostoevsky's Secrets: Reading Against the Grain is packed with new insights into Dostoevsky's narrative strategies, his metaphysical thematic, his characters' psychologies, and the sexual substrata of his plots." --Deborah Martinsen, Columbia University "Marvelously provocative. Apollonio pursues to its gaping end the radical Gogolian thought that words must lie, and thus the entire surface of a Dostoevskian novel--not only individual personalities within--is designed to deceive, to be prodded open and cleansed in the interests of a greater, counter-intuitive truth." --Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

"Many readers may be disturbed by the conclusions Apollonio reaches, but she is to be congratulated for taking such a bold, fresh approach, which will reinvigorate Dostoevskii studies for years to come." --Slavonic and East European Review