Saved by Beauty

Victoria Frede-Montemayor
University of California, Berkeley

This will not be a scholarly lecture, but just an account, from someone in academia, thinking more broadly about why Dostoevsky remains important, not as a historical figure, but as a writer we keep coming back to. There is something about the way one reads Dostoevsky that makes the interaction uniquely rich and productive. I’ll start with some general remarks about Dostoevsky and then try to illustrate the point about reading.