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Wringing optimism from wretchedness; 3-day local conference to explore Dostoevsky's unflinching, yet uplifting, exploration of humanity.(LOCAL NEWS)

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From: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
Date: 20080409
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Byline: Anna L. Griffin

Bleak, complex and dark are a few of the words one might find in literary surveys about Fyodor Dostoevsky's works. They are also words some might use to describe the present age, in which a new century has unfolded in calamities imposed by men and nature.

Can a Russian novelist who lived more than a century and a half ago have something to say to our uneasy world?

"There is an aspect of his life that is neglected by virtually all of his commentators," said Predrag Cicovacki, professor of philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. ...

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