Are you heading to Chicago for MLA 2019 next week? If yes, stop by the International Dostoevsky Society-sponsored panel, taking place on Fri, Jan 4 from 5:15-6:30pm in the Sheraton Grand (rm Superior A). The panel is Idiot-themed to kick off the novel’s 150th anniversary year!
Dostoevsky’s The Idiot at 150: Textual Transactions
“Dostoevsky’s Capitalist Realism; or, Why Money Doesn’t Burn in The Idiot” – Vadim Shneyder, U of California, Los Angeles
“Prince Myshkin and the Female Fool: Gendering Dostoevsky’s Fools for Christ” –Melanie Jones, U of California, Los Angeles
“The Devil Rousseau Comes to Petersburg” – Brian Armstrong, Augusta U
We hope you’ll join us in Chicago! Click here for more information.