Y. H. BRENNER (1881-1921) has long been associated with the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His early letters express fascination with Russian novelists, poets, and critics (Brenner, 1967, pp. 218-226), and the figures of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky appear many times in both his fiction and non-fiction writing. Brenner's admiration for the depth of Dostoyevsky's psychological portr...

We provide a real analog of the Yau-Zaslow formula counting rational curves on K3 surfaces. ”But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground.

Cultivated for ages in the Russian intellectual-cultural tradition and community consciousness questions about Russia and formulated within them the questions about the thought and work of F.M. Dostoyevsky remain often symptomatically integrally linked, even mutually co-assuming. As, programmatically assumed by the author of the article, the post-Kantian philosophical perspective illustrates an...

He [Myshkin] remembered that during his epileptic fits, or rather immediately preceding them, he had always experienced a moment or two when his whole heart and mind, and body seemed to wake up to vigour and light; when he became filled with joy and hope, and all his anxieties seemed to be swept away for ever; these moments were but presentiments, as it were, of the one final second (it was nev...