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.
“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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