Dostoevsky, Elijah the Prophet

[Anthony Anemone]

Robert Mann is Iurii Marmeladov.

Tony Anemone

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Richard Schultz <schultz1970 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Thanks to all list members who sent me references on Elijah the Prophet in
> the works of Dostoevsky. On the one hand, I was disappointed that what I
> thought was my discovery -- Elijah the Prophet in Crime and Punishment and
> in several other works by Dostoevsky -- had already been found by a previous
> scholar. Can someone provide me with any biographical info about Iurii
> Marmeladov, author of Tainyi kod Dostoevskogo? The name sounds like a hoax.
> (Pardon me, Mr. Marmeladov, if you really existed and you were blessed with
> such an unlikely surname!)
>
> I'm now convinced that, as Marmeladov has shown, Crime and Punishment
> should be approached in the context of The Village of Stepanchikovo and The
> Landlady, in which the Elijah theme comes into clear focus. Independently of
> Marmeladov, I noticed that Raskolnikov's confession comes on the holiday
> of Elijah, just after a thunderstorm -- and he confesses to the fiery Elijah
> Petrovich, a wrathful police officer. This is of great importance amid all
> the polemics over Dostoevsky's religiosity.
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