The dog and the roulette: Kynismus, Zynismus and carnivalization in Dostoevsky’s The Gambler
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Carnavalization, Dostoevsky, CynicismAbstract
Based on the ideas proposed by Bakhtin regarding carnivalization, a brief analysis of the novel The Gambler, published by Dostoevsky in 1867, is sought. Taking into account the strength that cynicism has in the origins of carnival literature, more specifically that of Lucian of Samosata, the tutor Alexei Ivanovich – narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel – is analyzed with basis on this philosophical tradition. To this end, we resort not only to authors of the Antiquity, such as Luciano himself, but also to representatives of contemporary philosophy who ventured into reflections about Diogenes and other cynics: the Frenchman Michel Foucault and the German Peter Sloterdijk . It is based on the latter's ideas that Aleksey is proposed as the incarnation of the Cynic-Kynike dialectics that characterizes modernity.
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