Между Гегелем и Фурье: загадка «Хозяйки» (Between Hegel and Fourier: The Enigma of «The Landlady»)

In the present essay, Dostoevsky’s novella «The Landlady» («Khoziaika», 1847) is dissected as a juncture between diverse political and intellectual currents: on one hand, the Fourierist utopianism, and on the other, the idea of liberating human personality as advocated by Russian Westernizers influenced by Hegel’s philosophy of history. This intersection of ideologies, both familiar to the young Dostoevsky, enables us to fathom the metaphorical construct of the novella, which would otherwise remain rather enigmatic.