Contents

Contributor Biographies

vii

Acknowledgements

xi

Introduction: Countersense and Interpretation

xiii

Muireann Maguire and Timothy Langen

I. Gogol

xxvii

1.

Something for Nothing: Imagination and Collapse in O’Brien, Krzhizhanovsky, and Gogol

1

Timothy Langen

2.

Seeing Backwards: Raphael’s Portrait of Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol

27

Ilya Vinitsky

II. Dostoevsky

51

3.

The Voice of Ivan: Ethical Plagiarism in Dostoevsky and Coetzee

53

Michael Bowden

4.

Foretelling the Past: Fyodor Dostoevsky Follows Guzel’ Yakhina into the Heart of Darkness

79

David Gillespie and Marina Korneeva

5.

Notes from the Other Side of the Chronotope: Dostoevsky Anticipating Petrushevskaia

101

Inna Tigountsova

III. Tolstoy

127

6.

Master and Manxman: Reciprocal Plagiarism in Tolstoy and Hall Caine

129

Muireann Maguire

7.

The Posteriority of the Anterior: Levinas, Tolstoy, and Responsibility for the Other

159

Steven Shankman

8.

From Sky to Sea: When Andrei Bolkonskii Voiced Achilles

189

Svetlana Yefimenko

Afterword: But Seriously, Folks…. (Pierre Bayard and the Russians)

221

Eric Naiman

List of Figures

263

Index

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