Eros e Ágape: o desejo e o amor cristão em Dostoiévski

Abstract

This work aims to broach the two faces of love in Dostoevsky: agape, the altruist love, the love for humanity, which is conducted by Christian religiosity; and eros, the erotic love, which is leaded by the simply human desire. In other words, it intends to deal with the love as the greatest performance of divine or as the typical degradation in the excess of human nature and, from one face to the other, to search not only throug its course on Dostoevsky’s work but also the subjects which it is connected with. In this study, The Idiot presents itself in a highlighted position because of its importance to the subject mainly due to the selfsame division of its protagonist, Prince Mychkin, who is understood here as a performance of a tragic tension between human and divine, that is lived throughout love. Beyond this work, other great romances of Dostoevsky, also take part in the discussion.