Dostoevsky in France. Defense and celebration of the Russian genius. 1942-2021

The monograph sets out materials and research on the history of the perception of the life and work of F. M. Dostoevsky (1821-1881) in the French intellectual culture, represented here through literary criticism, psychoanalysis and philosophy. The chronological framework is due to specific literary facts: on the one hand, it was in 1942 at the University of Ex-en-Provence that the graduate of the First Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg Pavel Nikolaevich Evdokimov defended his doctoral dissertation “Dostoevsky and the problem of evil”, which was one of the first scientific works about Dostoevsky In France, on the other hand, in the anniversary of 2021, the Honorary Professor of the University of Kan-Nizhny Normandy Michelle Nickeo issued Dostoevsky Dictionary of the French-XXI centuries. In the three-part composition of the monograph, “quasi-biographical sketches” are identified, in which the works and days of the authors of the most significant studies about the Russian writer who appeared in France in 1942-2021 are considered, “comparative sketches”, where Dostoevsky’s figure is considered through the prism of creative and critical reflections preserved In the works of his most prominent French readers and modern researchers actualized in the writings, “thematic variations”, in which a number of basic topics of the novels of the Russian writer are disassembled in the light of the latest research of French literary critics, psychoanalysts and philosophers. It is addressed to philologists and philosophers, specialists in Russian and foreign literature, graduate students, doctoral students, students, in a word, everyone who is not indifferent to the fate of the Russian genius "in the French side"