F. M. Dostoevsky’s Anniversary on the Pages of Turkish Literary Journal “HECE”

Abstract

The article is an analytical review of the two-volume special issue of Turkey’s largest monthly literary journal “HECE” dedicated to the 200th anniversary of F. M. Dostoevsky. More than 80 scientists from Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iran and America took part in the anniversary collective work. The problematic and thematic diversity of the prepared issue reflects relevance and enduring significance of the great Russian writer’s key ideas for the modern world. Works in the issue, emphasizing the depth and indissoluble unity of Dostoevsky’s moral and ethical concepts, and the artistic and aesthetic systems created by him, also convince readers of the inexhaustible potential inherent in the literary heritage of the brilliant thinker and artist. Studies of Dostoevsky’s novels, short stories and journalistic works, collected under the same cover of the journal, are considered in the context of the writer’s entire literary work and in connection with the main vectors of the world literary process. The publication brilliantly implementes the idea of the head of the “HECE” publishing company Mr Omer Faruk Ergezen, and is carried out with high professionalism of the editor, Professor of Ankara University Birsen Karaca.