"Strikingly original and marvelously written, Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self not only solves the riddle of Dostoevsky's conception of the self, but also provides a wealth of new insights into his works. Corrigan's study is likely to become an event in the field. What is more, it has the potential to be read beyond the circle of Dostoevsky scholars: students and general readers will find the book accessible, provoking, and inspiring. This is a major achievement in Dostoevsky scholarship." --Irina Paperno, author of Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia and "Who, What Am I?": Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self ""Yuri Corrigan has written a stunning companion to one of the great literary edifices. Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self is eloquent testimony to the flourishing of North American scholarship on Russian nineteenth-century literature over the past several decades, and proof that the tradition has been successfully passed on to the youngest generation represented by Corrigan and his peers, many of them published in this same series from Northwestern University Press. For some years now, budding academics in Britain and elsewhere have been encouraged to look 'beyond the text'; books such as this show just how much remains to be discovered within it." -- Times Literary Supplement "This highly original book examines Dostoevsky's complex, multifaceted, and self-contradictory representations of selfhood as he tried to strike a balance between a fully autonomous, isolated self, and a self that is wholly dependent upon others.

"--Kate Holland, author of The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre after the Great Reform "Recommended." --CHOICE Reviews.