Dimitris Baltas
God, World, Man
to Poor Folk by F. Dostoevsky
Poor Folk [its full title is Бе́дные лю́ди, 1846, 1847] is the first novel, in the form of letters, by F. Dostoevsky, which he published at the age of 26, and for which the great Vissarion Belinsky (1811-1848) wrote that “if Poor People had been shorter only by a tenth, and the author would have taken care to rid his novel of unnecessary repetitions of the same phrases and words, his work would truly be an impeccable work of art” . However, in this paper I will not deal with linguistic and phonological issues in the work of the Poor Folk, but rather philosophical, and specific issues that touch on philosophical anthropology, such as man’s relationship with the surrounding world and with God.
To begin with, I would like to note that the triptych “God-World-Man” runs through Dostoevsky’s overall work as an object of reflection, discussion, and controversy. It is interesting that in the case of the early work of the Poor Folk, he raises these issues, but perhaps not as systematically as in his later and especially his so-called “great” works.
Ολόκληρο το κείμενο στη συνέχεια.
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