Introductory: The Novelist as Journalist
January 24:
"White Nights," (1847) in The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by David Magarshack (Modern Library Classics);
"Four Essays from The Petersburg News" in Dostoyevsky"s Occasional Writings, translated by David Magarshack (Random House);
"The Double" in The Double and The Gambler
translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
(Everyman"s Library);
"Realism, Pure and Romantic," by Donald Fanger, in Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism (Northwestern University Press);
January 31:
Notes from the House of the Dead (1862), Introduction and Part One.
translated by David McDuff (Penguin Classics)
"The Translation Wars," by David Remnick, The New Yorker,
November 7, 2005
February 7:
Notes from the House of the Dead, Part Two
February 14:
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863),
translated by David Patterson (Northwestern University Press)
February 21:
Notes from Underground (1864)
translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Vintage)
February 28:
Crime and Punishment (1866), Parts One and Two
translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Vintage)
March 7:
Crime and Punishment, Parts Three and Four
March 14:
The Idiot (1868), Parts One and Two
translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Vintage)
March 21:
The Idiot, Parts Three and Four
[March 28: Spring Break]
April 4:
Demons (1871-72), Part One
translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
(Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)
April 11:
Demons, Part Two
A Writer"s Diary (Vol. 1 - 1873-1876), selections
translated by Kenneth Lantz (Northwestern University Press)
"Dostoevsky and the Western Intellectuals," by Czeslaw Milosz, in Crime and
Punishment (The Norton Critical Edition)
Why Lenin? Why Stalin?: A Reappraisal of the Russian Revolution, 1900-1930
by Theodore H. Von Laue [Chapters I-V] (Lippincott)
April 18:
The Demons, Part Three
"At Tikhon"s" in Demons (appendix)
April 25:
The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Books 1-4
translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky (Vintage)
May 2:
The Brothers Karamazov, Books 5-8
May 9:
The Brothers Karamazov, Books 9-12 and "Epilogue"
"The Jewish Question" (1877) in A Writer"s Diary (Vol. 2 1877-1881)
translated by Kenneth Lantz (Northwestern University Press)
"The Pushkin Speech" (1880) in A Writer"s Diary (Vol.2 1877-1881)
Class held at Brennan"s restaurant, Berkeley. Vodka and Caviar.