Dostoevsky and Cervantes: Dialogue in the big time. Review on K.A. Stepanyan’s monography

Tarasova Natalia A.,

Doctor of Philology,

Leading Researcher of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

E-mail: nsova74@mail.ru

The present critical review is devoted to a new book authored by K.A. Stepanyan, Doctor of Philological Sciences, the Regional Coordinator of the International Dostoevsky Society and Vice-President of the Russian Dostoevsky Society, that contains a comparative analysis of the Dostoevsky and Cervantes works in a broad historico-literary context.

Keywords: Dostoevsky, Cervantes, Problem of Hero, Poetics of Text.

References

1. Dostoevsky F.M. The full collected works in 30 volumes. — Leningrad, 1972—1990.

2. Stepanyan K.A. Dostoevsky and Cervantes. Dialogue in the big time. — Мoscow, 2013.