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Article: Dostoevsky and the literature of the American South.[Critical essay]
- Article from:
- The Southern Literary Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
- Author:
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Many prominent southern writers, including William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Walker Percy, among others, have attested to the importance of Fedor Dostoevsky to their work. (1) Many of these writers suggested that they identified with Dostoevsky not just as American writers but specifically as southern writers and that their southern heritage had a lot to do both with their attraction to and interpretation of Dostoevsky's novels. It is surprising then that there are virtually no scholarly evaluations of Dostoevsky's impact on southern writers as a group. (2)
Certainly, isolated and cursory remarks on the issue of Dostoevsky's ...