The course, which will be conducted in English, is addressed to students of comparative, Slavic and American literature. This seminar will focus less on the way Wallace borrowed directly from Dostoevsky (this has been well documented by Timothy Jacobs) but on the more general ethical issues and the dialogical and narrative techniques that are relevant for both writers. This is evident not only in his review of Joseph Frank’s monumental biography of Dostoevsky, but also in his masterpiece Infinite Jest, whose characters and themes are loosely patterned on The Brothers Karamazov. David Foster Wallace, who is arguably the most influential American fiction writer of the last twenty years, had a strong interest in the works of Dostoevsky.
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