Dostoevsky and World Culture Dostoevsky and World Culture 2619-0311 2712-8512 IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2025-2-370-383 Review Articles Images of Books in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot. Review of the Collective Monograph: Kasatkina, Tatiana A., Corbella, Caterina, Magaril-Il’iaeva, Tatiana G., and Nikolay N. Podosokorsky. Books in the Book. The Role and Image of Books in Fyodor Dost Borisova Valentina V. fedor@dostmirkult.ru 25 06 2025 1 2 370 383 Dostoevsky The Idiot books in the book the role and image of books Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 The review examines the collective monograph by Tatiana Kasatkina, Caterina Corbella, Tatiana Magaril-Il’iaeva, and Nikolay Podosokorsky titled Books in the Book. The Role and Image of Books in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot (Ed. T.A. Kasatkina. Moscow, IWL RAS, 2024. 392 p.). The work reviewed represents a perspective of research that has actively developed in recent years, characterized by a new terminological thesaurus and a new methodology for studying the role and image of books-within-books, which is fundamentally different from the traditional intertextual approach. The authors’ primary focus in the monograph is on an analytical and synthetic study of all the books present in the novel The Idiot — including fiction, historical, memoir and sacred texts. As the IWL RAS scholars show, all these works are actualized both as objects and texts at the levels of poetics, ethics, aesthetics, and metaphysics. The review examines the various sections of the monograph and offers both positive and critical evaluations of the results and prospects of the research. Bem, A.L. “Dostoevskii — genial’nyi chitatel’” [“Dostoevsky as a Brilliant Reader”]. Bem, A.L. Issledovaniia. Pis’ma o literature [Research. Letters on Literature]. 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