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  • Classification – name: Literary studies
  • Author: Tatyana V. Kovalevskaya
  • Pages: 240–256
  • Publisher: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS Publ.)
  • Rights – description: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (СС BY-ND)
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  • Language of the publication: Russian
  • Type of document: Research Article
  • Collection: Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent: Current State of Research
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0677-2-240-256
  • EDN:

    https://elibrary.ru/TNHYVG

  • Year of publication: 2022
  • Place of publication: Moscow
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  • Kovalevskaya, T.V. “Money and Personality: Notes from the House of the Dead, The Gambler, The Adolescent.” Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent: Current State of Research. Editor-in-Chief T.A. Kasatkina. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2022, pp. 240–256. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0677-2-240-256

Information about the author:

Tatyana V. Kovalevskaya, DSc in Philosophy, Docent, Full Professor, European Languages Department, Institute of Linguistics, Russian State University for the Humanities, Miusskaya Sq. 6, 125993 Moscow, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0527-2289

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract:

Taking Notes from the House of the Dead, The Gambler, and The Adolescent as its material, the article treats the topic of money in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s works primarily as a metaphysical concept instead of an economic phenomenon of everyday life. Money, “minted freedom,” is intended to replace a person’s inner personality and become that person’s external personality. The person thirsting for money envisions this replacement as a way of gaining boundless freedom that is akin to the freedom of God. In fact, however, the accumulation of money separates a person from other people and from God, deprives that person of their ability to act, of their freedom. The article analyzes the mechanisms of this phenomenon, the various forms of a person’s perception of their relations with the social and metaphysical levels of existence (a person’s “sociomythological status”) in different social strata, and their consequences for the person’s metaphysical self-determination.

  • Keywords: money, freedom, action, inaction, external personality, internal personality.

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