The Relationship Of Exile And The Other In Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes From A Dead House

OpenAlex İngilizce

The autobiographical work, Notes from a Dead House, sheds light on the identity crisis by presenting sections from the life of Fyodor Mihayilovic Dostoevsky's, one of the most important names of Russian literature.The exile experienced by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a crisis of cultural identity caused by the problem of not belonging as being 'the other'.This identity crisis of being 'the other', which has deepened the sense of uncertainty and alienation in cultural memory, prompted Dostoevsky to write his semi-autobiographical work, Notes from a Dead House.Dostoevsky, in his work, successfully presented the crisis of identity and the sense of (un)belonging that he aroused because of the effect of the displacement he experienced due to the conditions of the period.Within the context of the study, it is aimed to examine the relationship between exile and migration experienced by the author himself in the novel.It will be possible to determine that Fyodor Dostoevsky, who had an exile experience in his personal life, shaped his literary characters by being inspired by his own life in the novel.In order to support this determination, the method of psychoanalytic literary criticism will be applied in the study.In Notes from a Dead House, which was was based on Dostoevsky's real-life experiences, there is a criticism against Tsarist Russia as well as the theme of exile.In the light of such information, by analyzing the theme of freedom, it will be observed how much the trauma of being away from home alienates the person from society and eventually creates "the other".