O relato de viagem como gênero literário-filosófico em Hölderlin e Dostoiévski

• Main Author: Claudia Drucker
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2015-12-01
• Series: RUS (São Paulo)
• Subjects: Antiquity; West; Russia; estrangement; opposition
• Online Access: http://www.revistas.usp.br/rus/article/view/108589

Both in Hölderlin’s and Dostoevsky’s work travel into foreign lands plays an important role. Loss of familiarity is an opportunity of self-knowledge by contrast. There are differences between the findings. “We” for Hölderlin stand for Europeans, while for Dostoevsky stands for Russians. Hölderlin finds in Southern Greece resemblances to Ancient Greece, that he opposes to the “Westerner” who he himself is. Dostoevsky finds in Paris the accomplished example of the bourgeois, which he will turn later into the opposite to the Russian. In either case, the act of traveling places the writer before the task of his art.