Ideas That Plague Us: Crime and Punishment as a Pandemic Narrative

IF 0.3 3区文学 0 LITERATURE, SLAVIC

RUSSIAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ruslit.2022.11.003

Irina Erman

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Abstract

This paper argues that the motif of illness runs through all of Crime and Punishment and accompanies key developments and themes to such an extent that the novel merits a reading as a plague, or pandemic, narrative. The paper examines imagery of illness and infection in Dostoevsky’s novel and analyzes the way this imagery is used to underscore the danger and the infectiousness of the ideas that Dostoevsky is trying to debunk. This analysis of Crime and Punishment shows that Dostoevsky brilliantly mixes metaphors of biological and ideological infection, diagnosing ailments that still plague us to this day.

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困扰我们的想法:作为一种流行叙事的犯罪和惩罚

本文认为，疾病的主题贯穿于《罪与罚》的所有部分，并伴随着关键的发展和主题，以至于这部小说值得作为一种瘟疫或流行病叙事来阅读。本文考察了陀思妥耶夫斯基小说中关于疾病和感染的意象，并分析了这些意象是如何被用来强调陀思妥耶夫斯基试图揭穿的思想的危险性和传染性的。陀思妥耶夫斯基对《罪与罚》的分析表明，陀思妥耶夫斯基巧妙地混合了生物和意识形态感染的隐喻，诊断出至今仍困扰着我们的疾病。

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