Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Apparatus -- Introduction -- Editor's Preface -- From the Author -- Chapter One: Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Novel and Its Treatment in Critical Literature -- Chapter Two: The Hero, and the Position of the Author with Regard to the Hero, in Dostoevsky's Art -- Chapter Three: The Idea in Dostoevsky -- Chapter Four: Characteristics of Genre and Plot Composition in Dostoevsky's Works -- Chapter Five: Discourse in Dostoevsky -- i. Types of prose discourse. Discourse in Dostoevsky -- ii. The hero's monologic discourse and narrational discourse in Dostoevsky's short novels -- iii. The hero's discourse and narrative discourse in Dostoevsky -- iv. Dialogue in Dostoevsky -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. Three Fragments from the 1929 Edition Problems of Dostoevsky's Art -- Appendix II. "Toward a Reworking of the Dostoevsky Book" (1961) -- Glossary of Proper Names and Works -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.