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oapen-20.500.12657-749702023-08-03T17:59:44Z Chapter Ascetism and Incontinence and Dostoevsky’s Gift of Tears Apollonio, Carol Garstka, Christoph Dostoevsky ascetism sectarianism castrates drunkenness bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies In Dostoevsky’s binary poetics, an opposition can be drawn between two fundamental stances – asceticism and incontinence. Ascetics adhere to an ethos of self-restraint in response to the desires of the flesh. Incontinents act spontaneously to gratify their desires. The current study draws an analogy between the behavior pattern of Dostoevsky’s self-denying intellectual heroes and that of exiled castrate (skoptsy) communities. Dostoevsky’s ascetics represent a cerebral mindset attracted to visions of social utopia; their intellectualizing detaches them from the life of the body and thus weirdly parallels the strictures of the skoptsy. An encounter between an ascetic and a prostitute serves as a central plot moment in works such as Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground. 2023-08-03T15:09:19Z 2023-08-03T15:09:19Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20230803_9791221501223_166 2612-7679 9791221501223 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74970 rus Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9791221501223-08.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/979-12-215-0122-3_8 Firenze University Press Ф.М. Достоевский: Юмор, парадоксальность, демонтаж 10.36253/979-12-215-0122-3.08 In Dostoevsky’s binary poetics, an opposition can be drawn between two fundamental stances – asceticism and incontinence. Ascetics adhere to an ethos of self-restraint in response to the desires of the flesh. Incontinents act spontaneously to gratify their desires. The current study draws an analogy between the behavior pattern of Dostoevsky’s self-denying intellectual heroes and that of exiled castrate (skoptsy) communities. Dostoevsky’s ascetics represent a cerebral mindset attracted to visions of social utopia; their intellectualizing detaches them from the life of the body and thus weirdly parallels the strictures of the skoptsy. An encounter between an ascetic and a prostitute serves as a central plot moment in works such as Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground. 10.36253/979-12-215-0122-3.08 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 Ф.М. Достоевский: Юмор, парадоксальность, демонтаж bf5768b0-3a15-46c5-b309-49f31339b93d 9791221501223 52 10 Florence open access
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