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American underground spirit: Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground and the 20th century USA literature

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: F. Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground (1864) exerted a considerable influence on American literature since 1940s. The works by outstanding authors beginning with Saul Bellow (Dangling Man, 1944) or Jerome Salinger’s prose and up to Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, 1991), Percy Walker, David Foster Wallace, show a persistent fascination of American writers with the novella and are based on re-reading and re-interpreting Dostoevsky’s ideas, motives and imagery.

Source: Izvestiya of Saratov University Philology Journalism

DOI: 10.18500/1817-7115-2021-21-4-412-419

Author: Olga Yu. Panova

Institution: Lomonosov Moscow State University

Language: English

Topic: Comparative and World Literature

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4200526482

FWCI: 5.975

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Cited by: 4

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