Dostoevsky as a Contemporary: Reception in England and the United States
Most significant European and American writers and thinkers acknowledge Dostoevsky's crucial influence. The paper focuses on Dostoevsky's reception in England and the United States and shows how his philosophical and religious strivings, his discoveries in stream of consciousness and heteroglossia, his adolescent novels influenced immensely the 20th century literature. Dostoevsky's heritage also manifests itself in the confessional tradition of contemporary prose, which deserves special attention.