Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky\'s characters "sinning their way to Jesus." In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky\'s novels, but in Russian literature as a whole.
If they affirmed Jesus too directly, writers paradoxically risked diminishing him.
The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in the nineteenth century and the growth of secularism it stimulated made an earnest affirmation of Jesus in literature highly problematic.
Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky\'s characters "sinning their way to Jesus." In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky\'s novels, but in Russian literature as a whole