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.