Stanford Students Take Top Prize In Dostoevsky Video Contest

[Carol Apollonio, Ph.D.]

Stanford Students Take Top Prize In Dostoevsky Video Contest
A team from Stanford University won the inaugural Dostoevsky Video Contest, sponsored by the North American Dostoevsky Society (NADS). The director, Russian Literature PhD student Hannah Gould, and her team of undergraduate students will share a $500 cash prize, and each will receive a one-year membership in the NADS and the latest issue of Dostoevsky Studies.
The competition, open to all, called for two-minute videos inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1864 novella Notes From Underground. It attracted submissions from across the United States. Five finalists had videos posted on the NADS Facebook page, prompting a lively response. The winning video transposes Dostoevsky’s work onto a modern-day college campus and asks provocative questions about the relevance of narrative literature in the internet age. In this creative adaptation, the Underground Man’s loneliness is linked to his failed love affair, his refusal to give up “slow reading,” and his retreat into philosophy. "Notes from Underground: An Imaginative Adaptation set at Stanford University in the Year 2014,” enjoyed enthusiastic support both from the judges and from eloquent commentators on Facebook.
The NADS leadership was pleased with the contest's success, and impressed with the range and quality of all of the entries. The videos, along with the judges’ commentaries on them, can be viewed, “liked,” and commented on at www.facebook.com/North.American.Dostoevsky.Society<http://www.facebook.com/North.American.Dostoevsky.Society>). NADS is already preparing for the next video competition, and is accepting suggestions for the contest's theme on its Facebook page.
 For more information on the North American Dostoevsky Society, please contact membership at dostoevsky-na.org<mailto:membership at dostoevsky-na.org>.

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