New issue: Slavica litteraria 2022, No. 1

The present number is devoted to Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) and his double anniversary in a block of studies the authors of which are literary scholars from several European countries (Russia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, Switzerland and France; its organizer and the author of the introductory text is from the Czech Republic) specializing in Russian literature. They deal with various aspects of the creation of probably the most significant world prose writer and novelist comparable to Shakespeare in world drama, with all his contradictions and utopian and dystopian distinctive features. Much of it is being anticipated in the impressive dialogue of Roman Mnich and Leonid Heller; Olga Tabachnikova writes about Dostoevsky’s mediation to British students; Marina Urtminceva investigates the rhetorical style in The Diary of a Writer, Olga Chervinskaya and Roman Dzyk demonstrate the impact of the experience of the translator’s experience upon the author’s original creation, Stephanie Cirac shows the psychoanalytical aspects in the conception of Dostoevsky in the work of the founder of Prague Dostoevsky Society Alfred Bem. Patrik Lekeš reflects upon the problem of suicide in the novella A Gentle Creature (The Meek One) and Roman Dzyk in his separate study compares the variations of „mystical reality“ in Dostoevsky’s work and in Georges Bernasos’s novel Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan). In the section Materials and Discussions there are a study on urban and rural cultural areas, on Bulgarian anarchist exile; the part called Jubilees and Obituaries deals with the jubilees of Ivo Pospíšil (Libor Pavera) and Marie Sobotková (Jiří Fiala) and the obituary is devoted to the Russian specialist in Czech literature Lyudmila Budagova (Dagmar Blümlová). Reviews and Reports follow closing – as always – the present number of the journal.