The descriptions of bodies, and above all of mimicry and gesture in F.M. Dostoevsky’s novels Crime and Punishment and The Idiot have a very big conceptual significance. Descriptions can often replace character’s text, and author’s remarks can describe character’s personality more and better than their own words. Physical transmission of their psychology and sensations is one of the most peculiar Dostoevsky’s literary techniques, a sign of his mastership.
The article analyses some of the points of comparison between Dostoevsky’s novels Crime and Punishment and The Idiot, and Witkacy’s Insatiability, where we can find many allusions to Russian literature in general and to Dostoevsky’s work in particular. In both authors’ work the main ideas are presented “physically,“ as “embodied” into maniacal, suffering beings, from which arises the sensation of a “metaphisical erotism,“ of a corporeality of ideas. At the same time, purposes and solutions of the two novelists are resolutely different; in some cases we can observe in Witkiewicz’s heroe Genezyp an element of parody of Raskol’nikov’s and Myškin’s actions.
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