László F. Földényi is professor and chair in the theory of art at the University of Theatre, Film, and Television, Budapest, and a member of the German Academy. He has written numerous award-winning books and lives in Budapest. Ottilie Mulzet is an award-winning translator and literary critic.
“It is precisely Földényi’s approachable style, as well as Ottilie
Mulzet’s impeccable translation, that makes this collection easily
accessible to scholars and casual readers alike.”—Barbara Halla,
Asymptote
“Földényi’s brilliant essay on Dostoyevsky reading Hegel is an
essential meditation on history, civic responsibility and our
ongoing responsibility towards others.”—Alberto Manguel, author of
A History of Reading
“It is a hallucinatory moment: Dostoyevsky, first condemned to
death, then sent as a soldier to the endless emptiness of Siberia,
where he reads Hegel’s thoughts about the abstract building of
History, a building in which neither Siberia nor Africa can have a
place, an unsentimental construction made of glass, with its holy
ending the Weltgeist, in which all the personal suffering of
mankind has disappeared. Laszlo Földenyi has written about this in
such a way that you can feel the sacred shudder with him.”—Cees
Nooteboom
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