Abstract
Abstract Several weeks later, the narrator comes home to find Dostoevsky browsing his bookshelves. This leads to a discussion of Dickens and the portrayal of the death of children in literature, comparing Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop with Dostoevsky’s The Insulted and the Injured and The Brothers Karamazov. Discussion of Dostoevsky’s literary influences, including the respective roles of European and Russian literature, leads to considering the importance of the Bible for literature and in Dostoevsky’s life and novels. This in turn introduces the figure of Christ, with particular reference to Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and the story ‘The Grand Inquisitor’, addressing the question as to whether Dostoevsky’s Christ is too weak to save.
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