Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Dostoevsky and Transposition
1. Transposition as Criticism
2. The Artist as Gambler: Prokofiev and Dostoevsky
3. Voices of the Folk: Janáček’s From the House of the Dead
4. Secularizing Dostoevsky’s “Positively Good Man”: Kurosawa’s The Idiot
5. Restaging Two Sources: Wajda’s The Devils
Afterword
Appendix A: Musical Examples from Prokofiev, The Gambler
Appendix B: Musical Examples from Janáček, From the House of the Dead
Notes
Works Cited
Index