Melissa Frazier

mfrazier@sarahlawrence.edu
Articles by Melissa Frazier

Minds and Bodies in the World, or: Learning to Love Dostoevsky

I’m not one of those American Slavists who came to the study of Russian literature by way of Dostoevsky. For a long time, I wasn’t even particularly interested—I’m afraid that I took the pseudo-Nabokovian reading of Dostoevsky as my own, and even as my students clamored for more Dostoevsky, I resisted the idea of a Russian literature defined by Big Ideas.

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