This study re-examines the kinship between Jean Sbogar and the hero of Crime and Punishment, thereby situating Dostoyevsky’s novel in the tradition of “frenetic Romanticism.” With a Gramscian thesis in mind, the aim of this article is to show how this intertextuality profoundly shapes the character system. In contrast with the “Brothers of the common good,” the plot of the 1866 novel instead develops the values of a secondary figure, often banished from fiction: the sister.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques