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SUMMARY:Marking the Bicentenary of Dostoevsky's Birth – A talk by V. Dim
 itriev (in Russian): On the Structure of the Idea in Dostoevsky's Works - 
 Dr Victor Dimitriev\, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House)\, Ru
 ssian Academy of Sciences\, St Petersburg\; Higher School of Economics (HS
 E) University\, St Petersburg
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CONTACT:Ksenia Afonina
DESCRIPTION:Dr Dimitriev's lecture will examine the hallmark of Dostoevsky
 's plot construction in his later works: the action in Dostoevsky's novels
  develops in such a way that the fate and character of any given protagoni
 st may alter significantly without exhaustive explanation in the plot. The
  shift in Raskolnikov's outlook\, Stavrogin's sufferings after his crime a
 gainst Matryosha or the character development of Arkady Dolgoruky as he co
 mes of age are not sufficiently motivated by any particular plot developme
 nts. An analysis of the manuscript history reveals the unfolding complexit
 y of the grounding of protagonists' motivations in the plot: the passages 
 removed from the novels' preparatory materials are precisely those which m
 ight have rendered possible an unambiguous psychological or moral underpin
 ning of a protagonist's actions. As will be demonstrated in Dr Dimitriev's
  lecture\, this distinctive feature is also linked to the structure of the
  idea in Dostoevsky's novels. In Dr Dimitriev's view\, it is not that the 
 protagonists become the servants of ideas in Dostoevsky's texts\, but rath
 er it would be more accurate to say that particular stages in the lives of
  the protagonists create particular forms of the idea. It is the changing 
 character of ideas\, and their dependence on particular moments in the liv
 es of the protagonists\, that renders possible that ambiguity of plot whic
 h is so important to the writer.\n\nThe lecture will be followed by a Q&A 
 session. Live gist translation into English will be provided in the Zoom c
 hat.\n\n*WHEN:* Thursday 4 November\, 19:00\n\n*WHERE:* Zoom\n\n*LANGUAGE:
 * Russian (with live gist translation into English via the Zoom chat)\n\n*
 FEE:* Voluntary donation (see below)\n\nPlease "REGISTER in advance":https
 ://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtce2hrTsiG9A1B8KcKiVIjKzfpVKYJ0L5 (
 with your name and email address). After registering\, you will receive a 
 confirmation email with a Zoom joining link.\n\nSee this event on the "Cam
 RuSS website":http://www.camruss.com/en/events/marking-the-bicentenary-of-
 dostoevskys-birth-a-talk-by-v-dimitriev-in-russian-on-the-structure-of-the
 -idea-in-dostoevskys-works/.\n\n*About the speaker*\n\n"Dr Victor Dimitrie
 v":http://pushkinskijdom.ru/nauchnye-otdely/otdel-novoj-russkoj-literatury
 /gruppa-po-izucheniyu-tvorchestva-f-m-dostoevskogo/sotrudniki/viktor-mihaj
 lovich-dimitriev/ (born 1989) holds the degree of Candidate of Sciences (P
 hD) in Philology. He is a Junior Research Fellow and member of the Dostoev
 sky Group at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House)\, Russian
  Academy of Sciences\, St Petersburg and a Senior Lecturer at the St Peter
 sburg campus of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) University.\n\nWhile 
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