In an attempt to interpret the timeless discomfort of criticism towards Dostoevsky's work, G. Kythraiotis embarks on a search for the characteristics of his novelistic poetics, as well as their extra-literary origins.

In the five essays presented in this book, Kythraiotis seeks to correlate Dostoevsky's aesthetic choices with his vision of man and the world. A vision that takes shape through his passionate dialogue on one hand with the Western post-Renaissance view of man and, on the other, with Orthodox theology.