Argues that twentieth-century adaptations of four of Dostoevsky's works - Sergei Prokofiev's opera The Gambler, Leos Janacek's opera From the Dead House, Akira Kurosawa's film The Idiot, and Adrzej Wajda's drama The Devils - bring to light under developed or unappreciated aspects of Dostoevsky's texts rather than by slavishly attempting to recreate their sources.
| ISBN: | 9780810127159 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2011 |
| Author: | Alexander Burry |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 245 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism |