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Discovering Sexuality in Dostoevsky

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From: Canadian Slavonic Papers
Date: 20070301
Author:Baer, Brian James

Suzanne Fusso. Discovering Sexuality in Dostoevsky. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2006. xv; 216 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cloth: $69.95.

For almost a hundred years scholarly investigation of sexuality in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky has been dominated by Freudian analysis of the author's sexuality, often done through a mingling of his biography and literary works. The approach was, of course, canonized by Sigmund Freud himself in his essay "Dostoevsky and Patricide," which, as we know now, was based on a number of ...

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