Disturbing the Balance – Woody Allen Reads Dostoyevsky

Authors

  • Michał Bobrowski Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University , Jagielonska univerza v Krakovu, Fakulteta za management in socialne komunikacije

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18690/scn.4.2.82–93.2011

Keywords:

Intertextual polemic, Orthodox faith, atheism, religious ethics, secular ethics

Abstract

This paper discusses the polemic, intertextual correspondence which occurs between Woody Allen’s drama Crimes and Misdemeanors and Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov. Through a comparative analysis, the author reveals structural analogies between both works, but also fundamental ideological differences. Dostoyevky’s approach to the subject of the moral consequences of rejection of religious faith was that of a follower of the Orthodox faith. For Allen, a similar topic became the pretext for deliberations on man’s existential solitude.

Author Biography

  • Michał Bobrowski, Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University, Jagielonska univerza v Krakovu, Fakulteta za management in socialne komunikacije

    Krakow, Poland. E-mail: mch.bobrowski@gmail.com

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Published

16.10.2020

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2011)

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Bobrowski, M. (2020). Disturbing the Balance – Woody Allen Reads Dostoyevsky. Slavia Centralis, 4(2), 82–93. https://doi.org/10.18690/scn.4.2.82–93.2011