Jackson R.L. Dialogues with Dostoevsky. The Overwhilming Questions

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. — 346 p. — ISBN: 0-8047-2120-3.This book is an overwhelming material that not only deals with Dostoevsky and his work, but tries to connect and shed some light on the influences and other great writers in connection to this Russian genius. The main point is that Dostoevsky is in his work and that the fluidity of his works not only changes the way we look at them, but makes us learn more about Dostoevsky himself.Introduction: Dostoevsky in Movement.
The Ethics of Vision I: Turgenev’s “Execution of Tropmann” and Dostoevsky’s View of the Matter.
The Ethics of Vision II: The Tolstoyan Synthesis.
The Ethics of Vision III: The Punishment of the Tramp Prokhorov in Chekhov’s The Island of Sakhalin.
Dostoevsky in Chekhovs Garden of Eden “Because of Little Apples”.
A View from the Underground: On Nikolai Nikolaevich Strakhov’s Letter About His Good Friend Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky and on Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy’s Cautious Response to It.
In the Interests of Social Pedagogy: Gorky’s Polemic Against the Staging of The Devils in 1913 and the Aftermath in 1917.
Chateaubriand and Dostoevsky: Elective Affinities.
Dostoevsky and the Marquis de Sade: The Final Encounter.
The Root and the Flower: Dostoevsky and Turgenev, a Comparative Aesthetic.
Unbearable Questions: Two Views of Gogol and the Critical Synthesis.
In the Darkness of the Night: Tolstoys Kreutzer Sonata and Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground.
States of Ambiguity: Early Shakespeare and Late Dostoevsky, the Two Ivans.
Counterpoint: Nietzsche and Dostoevsky.
Vision in His Soul: Vyacheslav I. Ivanovs Dostoevsky.
Bakhtins Poetics of Dostoevsky and Dostoevsky's “Declaration of Religious Faith”.
Last Stop: Virtue and Immortality in The Brothers Karamazov.