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Article: Zosima, Mikhail and prosaic confessional dialogue in Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov.
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- Studies in the Novel
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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In the first chapter of The Brothers Karamazov, the narrator digresses to tell a story:
I knew a young lady of the "romantic" generation before the last who after some years of an enigmatic passion for a gentleman, whom she might easily have married at any moment, invented insuperable obstacles to their union, and ended by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to satisfy her own caprice, and to be like Shakespeare's Ophelia. Indeed, if this precipice, a chosen and favorite spot of hers, had been less picturesque, if there had been a prosaic flat bank in its place, most ...