TY - JOUR N2 - The article is a contribution to the methodology of reading and interpreting Dostoevsky’s famous novels. It owes its genesis to the refl ection upon the evolution of literary theory discourse in XX century and upon transformations in global (mainly Russian and Western) reception and modes of interpreting the oeuvre of the great Russian artist. The aim of the text is to prepare ground for reorienting Polish “dostoevskology” from the dominant reconstructive course onto the more creative, interpretative one. The order of my inquiries presents itself as follows. In the fi rst part of the article I focus on the questions of ideas, the protagonist and narrative techniques in Dostoevsky so that to highlight the specifi city of the writer’s approach to these issues. It will allow me to speak up for the minimum of methodological awareness which implies acknowledgment of the paradigm of polyphony, polysemy and complexity of Dostoevsky’s text. Perhaps it will also become possible to reveal some gaps in the hitherto existing state of research, debunk several stereotypes still functioning in Polish “dostoevskology”, and draw attention to still unrecognized interpretative clues in context of those crucial aspects of Dostoevsky’s work. In the second part I will reconstruct several most popular approaches to Dostoevsky’s text which differ in terms of understanding of what the relation between the reader and the text should comprise of. I will try to determine the benefi ts they can bring but also to sensitize to pitfalls they may entail. In the fi nal, third part of the study I will propose a project of a new interpretative approach which would rise to the challenge of Dostoevsky’s “spirit” as well as the spirit of his text the way it is construed by the most advanced contemporary critical studies and as I have learnt to perceive it. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/110434/PDF/Slavia%20Orient.%201-19%204-M.Kruszelnicki.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/110434 PY - 2019 IS - No 1 EP - 29 DO - 10.24425/slo.2019.126543 KW - Dostoevsky KW - text KW - methodology KW - reading KW - interpretation KW - originality A1 - Kruszelnicki, Michał PB - Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN VL - vol. LXVIII DA - 2019.03.28 T1 - How to Read and Interpret Dostoevsky Today? Some Methodological and Technical Remarks SP - 7 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/110434 T2 - Slavia Orientalis ER -