Abstract
Here, the influence of Goethe is explored through Turgenev, and through Dostoevsky, in his writings on suicide, including the short story ‘A Gentle Creature’, and through the characters Kirillov and Stavrogin in his novel Demons. The fullest analysis, however, is reserved for The Brothers Karamazov, of which this chapter attempts to give a close reading in terms of its diabolism. Drawing on Bakhtin, the chapter takes issue with many ‘traditional’ and Christian readings of this text.
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