Hogtown and Dostoevsky

[Nancy Green]

I have been reading a novel about a Russian scholar named Yuri Marmaladoff
who makes a discovery in his studies of Dostoevsky. His primary discovery is
Elijah the Prophet as a symbol that occurs again and again throughout
Dostoevsky’s writings – unnoticed by professors of Russian for most of the
20th century. I’m not a Russian major, but I’m very interested in Russian
literature. I have had two courses that dealt with Dostoevsky, and Elijah
the Prophet was never mentioned by my professors. Can you Russian
specialists clarify for me whether there really was such a discovery – or is
"Hogtown" pure fiction?
  Nancy Green




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