SEELANGS Digest - 17 Mar 2014 to 18 Mar 2014 - Special issue (#2014-162)

[Carol Apollonio]

Dear colleagues and friends,

It is with profound sorrow that we share with you the news of Robert Belknap's death yesterday morning in New York city. Bob was one of the very greatest Dostoevsky scholars, and his two classic works on The Brothers Karamazov are cited by anyone who writes about the novel. He was a beloved teacher and a generous and kind mentor who inspired our work for many decades. In 2010 his colleagues and former students gathered to honor his teaching legacy, and they were able to hand-deliver their tribute, a book on teaching nineteenth-century Russian literature, to him weeks before his death. Bob remained a vibrant and active scholar and interlocutor until his last minutes. We all share in this profound loss, and encourage you to post your thoughts, either by entering them directly at  https://www.facebook.com/North.American.Dostoevsky.Society, or by sending a note to flath at duke.edu for posting there.
 
There will be a memorial service at Columbia University in the fall.


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