SOURCE: Hollander, Robert. “The Apocalyptic Framework of Dostoevsky's The Idiot.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 7, no. 2 (1974): 123-39.
In the following essay, Hollander argues that critics who have commented on the aesthetic failure of The Idiot have not considered that a thematic interpretation of the novel based on the Book of Revelation does indeed bring the characters and events together.
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