As discussed by Freud in his essay on Dostoevsky and patricide, Dostoevsky is autopunisce through seizures for the death wish against the father hated, patricide as a source of guilt.
This theme is extensively developed in the novel The Brothers Karamazov, and you can see many elements that also belong to the private life of the writer. Fyodor
Pavlovich Karamazov, the father killed in the novel in question is depicted as a man obscene, anyone who slays with his presence in constant search of fun and with the cunning that serves both as a tool and only limit to the ferocity, was a widower, tended to drink a little too much and he used to use his authority to rule people he employees. It is believed that Mikhail Dostoevsky Andreievich, the father of the writer, a man was angry and ugly, and the fact that he was murdered by some farmers for the brutality he used to commit confirm this hypothesis. Another issue that is intertwined with the real story is that between father and writer Dostoevsky, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, and that among children, the predominant topic was money.
The four Karamazov brothers, according to a letter in response to critics who Dostoevsky was about to write at the end of 1879 and then did not write, they should be together "a picture - albeit on a reduced scale of one to a thousand - of our contemporary reality, both in our current intellectual and Russia " [1] . But, just in that whole they constitute, in the shape of a representation of the same personality, mind-soul of man in general, which are very close to three parts of completeness, conscience, next to the three that already takes the right to consider a whole, there is a part in more, not integrated in the shadows, which makes that whole trinary a vain pretension - just like the incoming, unexpectedly Smerdijakòv, which until order will be rejected integration in the family to which he belongs as the other three.
[1] Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, introduction by Igor Sibaldi, p. XXXVI, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan, 1994.
This theme is extensively developed in the novel The Brothers Karamazov, and you can see many elements that also belong to the private life of the writer. Fyodor
Pavlovich Karamazov, the father killed in the novel in question is depicted as a man obscene, anyone who slays with his presence in constant search of fun and with the cunning that serves both as a tool and only limit to the ferocity, was a widower, tended to drink a little too much and he used to use his authority to rule people he employees. It is believed that Mikhail Dostoevsky Andreievich, the father of the writer, a man was angry and ugly, and the fact that he was murdered by some farmers for the brutality he used to commit confirm this hypothesis. Another issue that is intertwined with the real story is that between father and writer Dostoevsky, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, and that among children, the predominant topic was money.
The four Karamazov brothers, according to a letter in response to critics who Dostoevsky was about to write at the end of 1879 and then did not write, they should be together "a picture - albeit on a reduced scale of one to a thousand - of our contemporary reality, both in our current intellectual and Russia " [1] . But, just in that whole they constitute, in the shape of a representation of the same personality, mind-soul of man in general, which are very close to three parts of completeness, conscience, next to the three that already takes the right to consider a whole, there is a part in more, not integrated in the shadows, which makes that whole trinary a vain pretension - just like the incoming, unexpectedly Smerdijakòv, which until order will be rejected integration in the family to which he belongs as the other three.
[1] Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, introduction by Igor Sibaldi, p. XXXVI, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan, 1994.
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