Dostoyevsky and the Process of Literary Creation

Preface to the English edition List of abbreviations General editor's note on transliteration and references General introduction Part I. The Creative Environment: Introduction 1. Forms of creativity in embryo 2. The heritage 3. The heritage: literature 4. The heritage: history and philosophy 5. Illness 6. Money Part II. The Process of Creation: Introduction 7. The writer at work 8. The great dialogue: the news item 9. The great dialogue: migrant images 10. The play of dialogue 11. The unity of thought in the novel 12. The summit of creative interrogation: 'The Life of a Great Sinner' 13. A Raw Youth: reasons for choice 14. A Raw Youth: the appearance of the vision 15. A Raw Youth: the human architecture 16. A Raw Youth: the idea of the novel 17. The composition of the novel in Dostoyevsky's work: choice of chronicle form 18. Composition of the novel in A Raw Youth: chronicle and stories Part III. Time and Space in the World of the Novels: Introduction 19. The master of men and hours 20. Chronology and temporality in The Idiot 21. The ascending spiral 22. Time of power and power of time 23. The heavens of eternity 24. The dream of space and the space of the real 25. The inventory and the expressionist orchestration of scenery and lighting 26. The semantics of colour 27. The hero in space: sighting and seeing Conclusion Notes Select bibliography Index of names.