
D&RN - Demons Bustle About
Finally we get to see Pyotr Stepanovich bustle about and put his dubious plans into motion. Today Professor Kozlowski contrasts the careers and adventures of Pyotr Stepanovich and Stavrogin, examines ...
8 Apr 20241h 28min

D&RN - Demons Unmasked
Professor Kozlowski continues his discussion of Dostoevsky's Demons by deeply examining the newly-revealed characters of Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin and Pyotor Stepanovich through their interactio...
1 Apr 20241h 39min

D&RN - Undercover Demons
Professor Kozlowski continues his discussion of Dostoevsky's Demons with an examination of many of the minor characters introduced so far, and how their relationships are revealed, piecemeal, through ...
21 Mars 20241h 15min

D&RN - Introducing Demons
Today Professor Kozlowski discusses the first two chapters of Dostoevsky's Demons, introduces three of our primary characters, and connects them to their archetypes in 1860s Russian society. Also joke...
12 Mars 20241h 24min

D&RN - Crime, Punishment, Debts, and Devils
Professor Kozlowski attempts to recount the developments in the Russian literary world between 1864 and 1871 (when Demons is written), including a brief summary of Crime and Punishment and its relevan...
6 Mars 20241h 12min

D&RN - Apropos of the Wet Snow
Professor Kozlowski tackles the second half of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, with special attention to exploring the references to 1840's Russian literature (and to Chernyshevsky's What is to B...
29 Feb 20241h 33min

D&RN - Underground
At long last, Professor Kozlowski confronts Dostoevsky's most widely discussed and controversial creation: Notes from Underground. Come for the tortured consciousness of the underground man, stay for ...
22 Feb 20241h 44min

D&RN - Chernyshevsky 3
Professor Kozlowski muses on the Utopian hopes and missing realities of Chernyshevsky's promised revolution at the end of What is to Be Done? To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his ...
15 Feb 20241h 30min



















