Lindsay Ceballos, Reading Faithfully: Russian Modernist Criticism and the Making of Dostoevsky, 1881-1917 (Ithaca: Northern Illinois UP, an imprint of Cornell UP, 2025) (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies), 215 pp.

Key Points

• To analyze the influence of Russian modernist criticism on the interpretation of Dostoevsky's work.
• Literary analysis of Dostoevsky's texts
• Examination of critical responses from 1881 to 1917
• Contextual study of the historical background and its influence on criticism
• Highlights the evolution of Dostoevsky's interpretation during the modernist period
• Identifies key critics and their contributions to Dostoevsky's legacy
• Demonstrates the interplay between literary criticism and historical context

Abstract