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Book SynopsisFyodor Dostoevsky''s first novel, Netochka Nezvanova, written in 1849, remains the least studied and understood of the writer''s long fiction, but it was a seedbed for many topics and themes that became hallmarks of his major works. Specifically, Netochka Nezvanova was the first in Dostoevsky''s corpus to focus on the psychology of children and the first to feature a woman in a leading and narrative role. It was also the first work in Russian literature to deal with problems of the family.
In Heroine Abuse, Thomas Marullo contends that Netochka Nezvanova also provides a striking example of what psychologists today call codependency: the waysoften deviant and destructivein which individuals bond with people, places, and things, as well as with images and ideas, to cope with the vicissitudes of life. Marullo shows how, at age twenty-eight, Dostoevsky intuited and illustrated the workings of relationship addiction almost a century and a half before it
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Heroine Abuse goes a significant way towards restoring Netochka Nezvanova to its rightful place in Dostoevskii's oeuvre.Slavonic & East European Review
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Its clear structure, its copious notes and references to scholarship, along with Marullo's extremely close reading, result in this monograph becoming a primary source on Netochka Nezvanova for scholars of Russian literature.
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