Idiotul. Romanul cel mai plastic al lui Dostoievski
The idiot: Dostoievski’s most plastic novel
Despite of the fluid or musical structure of his novels, Dostoievski showed an utmost interest for some of the Renaissance masterpieces with biblical subjects such as the crucifixion. Christ in thetomb, the painting made by Hans Holbein the Young, produced such an astonishing impact on the writer, that he turned it into a narative central motif within one of his most important writings, The idiot, focused on the complex issue regarding the tension between aesthetisc and Christian ethics, idealism and scepticism. The painting can be considered an exphrasis, am image extremely relevant for the peculiar vision of the Russian novelist about the human being.
F.M. Dostoievski, Idiotul / The Idiot, IInd ed., transl. and annot. by Emil Iordache. Iaşi: Polirom, 2007.
Victor Ieronim Stoichiţă, Un idiot în Elveţia. Ipostaze ale imaginii la Dostoievski / An idiot in Switzerland. Hypostases of the image at Dostoievski, in Efectul Don Quijote / The Don Quixote effect, Bucureşti, Humanitas, 1995.
Ion Ianoşi, Dostoievski. Tragedia subteranei / Dostoyevsky. The Tragedy of Underground (chap. II, Idiotul / The Idiot), Bucureşti: Editura Fundaţiei Culturale Ideea Europeană, 2004.
Ion Ianoşi, Dostoievski şi Tolstoi. Poveste cu doi necunoscuţi / Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy.Story with two strangers Bucureşti: Editura Fundaţiei Culturale Ideea Europeană, 2004.
Lev Şestov, Filosofia tragediei / The philosophy of tragedy, Bucureşti: Univers, 1999.
