Cada vez são mais comuns problemas relacionados a movimentos de massa nas encostas de clima tropical no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, especialmente na Serra do Mar, provocados por acumulados pluviométricos intensos. A ocupação humana desordenada de áreas sensíveis a tais processos geomorfológicos, bem como as condicionantes geológicas, geomorfológicas, pedológicas e de uso e cobertura do solo são apontadas como fatores cruciais na explicação desses processos. O maior conhecimento da dinâmica pluviométrica bem como suas interações com tais aspectos físicos ligados ao relevo parece ser a chave dessa maior compreensão desses fenômenos. Assim foram realizadas pesquisas relacionadas aos volumes e intensidades das chuvas na região do Alto Curso do Rio São João, bem como uma análise dos movimentos de massa identificados através de imagens de satélite e in loco, como forma de fornecer subsídios à melhor gestão do espaço dessas regiões montanhosa estão vulneráveis a movimentos de massa. A correlação entre os acumulados e a intensidade pluviométrica com fenômenos climáticos de escala global, como El Niño e La Niña também foi contemplada nessa pesquisa, mostrando uma relação mais alta com relação à intensidade da chuva mensal para anos de El Niño e para anos de La Niña uma reduzida ocorrência dessas intensidades pluviométricas. Os estudos revelaram que os tipos de solos e sua cobertura e uso têm uma grande influência na deflagração de movimentos de massa. Foram observados um número reduzido de movimentos de massa em áreas naturais e uma maior proporção desses movimentos em áreas utilizadas para a atividade da pecuária na região. Grande parte dos movimentos de massa ocorreram em áreas de Cambissolos (áreas mais elevadas) e Latossolos (áreas de encostas em menores altitudes). Ambos os solos são mais espessos do que os encontrados em áreas mais declivosas, apresentando maior acúmulo de materiais a serem mobilizados durante grandes acumulados pluviométricos, gerando movimentos de massa. A análise mostrou também que áreas mais chuvosas e com maior ocorrência de acumulados pluviométricos extremos, acima de 100 mm/dia e acima de 30mm/mês concentraram um número maior de movimentos de massa, como a região mais próxima da estação de Quartéis (porção leste). Por outro lado áreas bastante elevadas, com altas declividades, porém com predomínio de Mata Atlântica e áreas com solos menos espessos, como os Neossolos Litólicos, se mostraram com um número reduzido desses processos. Enfim esse estudo mostrou a necessidade de se gerir melhor os espaços dessas áreas sensíveis sob o ponto de vista geomorfológico, até por que são áreas na periferia de regiões densamente habitadas e cujas demandas tendem a se tornar cada vez mais marcantes, o que pode gerar problemas locais, atingindo sua população e economia, com sérias conseqüências para o ambiente. / Are increasingly common problems related to mass movements on the slopes of tropical climate in the State of Rio de Janeiro, especially in the Serra do Mar, caused by intense rainfall accumulated. The disorganized human occupation of sensitive areas such geomorphological processes and the geological conditions, geomorphology, soil and use and land cover are cited as crucial factors in explaining these processes. The understanding of rainfall dynamics as well as their interactions with such physical aspects related to the relief seems to be the key to this greater understanding of these phenomena. So were performed research related to volume and intensity of rainfall in the Upper St. John River Course, as well as an analysis of mass movements identified through satellite imagery and on-site as a way to provide subsidies to better management of these space mountainous regions as vulnerable to mass movements. The correlation between rainfall intensity and accumulated with global-scale climatic phenomena like El Niño and La Niña was also considered in this study, showing a higher ratio with respect to the intensity of monthly rainfall for El Niño years and La Niña years a reduced occurrence of rainfall intensities. Studies have shown that the types of soils and their cover and land use have a great influence on outbreaks of mass movements. We observed a small number of mass movements in natural areas and a higher proportion of these movements in areas used for livestock activity in the region. Most mass movements occurred in areas of Cambisols (higher areas) and Oxisols (slopes in areas of lower altitudes). Both soils are thicker than those found in hilly areas, with higher accumulation of materials to be deployed during large accumulated rainfall, generating mass movements. The analysis also showed that areas with increased wet and accumulated occurrence of precipitation extreme excess of 100 mm/day and above 30mm/month concentrated a larger number of mass movements, as the region closest to the station Quartéis (East portion).On the other hand very high areas with steep slopes, but with a predominance of Atlantic Forest and areas with thinner soils, such as Entisols, were with a small number of these processes. Finally this study showed the need to better manage these areas, sensitive areas under the geomorphological point of view, even for areas that are on the outskirts of densely populated and whose demands tend to become increasingly salient, which can cause problems locations, reaching its population and economy, with serious consequences for the environment

Cada vez são mais comuns problemas relacionados a movimentos de massa nas encostas de clima tropical no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, especialmente na Serra do Mar, provocados por acumulados pluviométricos intensos. A ocupação humana desordenada de áreas sensíveis a tais processos geomorfológicos, bem como as condicionantes geológicas, geomorfológicas, pedológicas e de uso e cobertura do solo são apontadas como fatores cruciais na explicação desses processos. O maior conhecimento da dinâmica pluviométrica bem como suas interações com tais aspectos físicos ligados ao relevo parece ser a chave dessa maior compreensão desses fenômenos. Assim foram realizadas pesquisas relacionadas aos volumes e intensidades das chuvas na região do Alto Curso do Rio São João, bem como uma análise dos movimentos de massa identificados através de imagens de satélite e in loco, como forma de fornecer subsídios à melhor gestão do espaço dessas regiões montanhosa estão vulneráveis a movimentos de massa. A correlação entre os acumulados e a intensidade pluviométrica com fenômenos climáticos de escala global, como El Niño e La Niña também foi contemplada nessa pesquisa, mostrando uma relação mais alta com relação à intensidade da chuva mensal para anos de El Niño e para anos de La Niña uma reduzida ocorrência dessas intensidades pluviométricas. Os estudos revelaram que os tipos de solos e sua cobertura e uso têm uma grande influência na deflagração de movimentos de massa. Foram observados um número reduzido de movimentos de massa em áreas naturais e uma maior proporção desses movimentos em áreas utilizadas para a atividade da pecuária na região. Grande parte dos movimentos de massa ocorreram em áreas de Cambissolos (áreas mais elevadas) e Latossolos (áreas de encostas em menores altitudes). Ambos os solos são mais espessos do que os encontrados em áreas mais declivosas, apresentando maior acúmulo de materiais a serem mobilizados durante grandes acumulados pluviométricos, gerando movimentos de massa. A análise mostrou também que áreas mais chuvosas e com maior ocorrência de acumulados pluviométricos extremos, acima de 100 mm/dia e acima de 30mm/mês concentraram um número maior de movimentos de massa, como a região mais próxima da estação de Quartéis (porção leste). Por outro lado áreas bastante elevadas, com altas declividades, porém com predomínio de Mata Atlântica e áreas com solos menos espessos, como os Neossolos Litólicos, se mostraram com um número reduzido desses processos. Enfim esse estudo mostrou a necessidade de se gerir melhor os espaços dessas áreas sensíveis sob o ponto de vista geomorfológico, até por que são áreas na periferia de regiões densamente habitadas e cujas demandas tendem a se tornar cada vez mais marcantes, o que pode gerar problemas locais, atingindo sua população e economia, com sérias conseqüências para o ambiente. / Are increasingly common problems related to mass movements on the slopes of tropical climate in the State of Rio de Janeiro, especially in the Serra do Mar, caused by intense rainfall accumulated. The disorganized human occupation of sensitive areas such geomorphological processes and the geological conditions, geomorphology, soil and use and land cover are cited as crucial factors in explaining these processes. The understanding of rainfall dynamics as well as their interactions with such physical aspects related to the relief seems to be the key to this greater understanding of these phenomena. So were performed research related to volume and intensity of rainfall in the Upper St. John River Course, as well as an analysis of mass movements identified through satellite imagery and on-site as a way to provide subsidies to better management of these space mountainous regions as vulnerable to mass movements. The correlation between rainfall intensity and accumulated with global-scale climatic phenomena like El Niño and La Niña was also considered in this study, showing a higher ratio with respect to the intensity of monthly rainfall for El Niño years and La Niña years a reduced occurrence of rainfall intensities. Studies have shown that the types of soils and their cover and land use have a great influence on outbreaks of mass movements. We observed a small number of mass movements in natural areas and a higher proportion of these movements in areas used for livestock activity in the region. Most mass movements occurred in areas of Cambisols (higher areas) and Oxisols (slopes in areas of lower altitudes). Both soils are thicker than those found in hilly areas, with higher accumulation of materials to be deployed during large accumulated rainfall, generating mass movements. The analysis also showed that areas with increased wet and accumulated occurrence of precipitation extreme excess of 100 mm/day and above 30mm/month concentrated a larger number of mass movements, as the region closest to the station Quartéis (East portion).On the other hand very high areas with steep slopes, but with a predominance of Atlantic Forest and areas with thinner soils, such as Entisols, were with a small number of these processes. Finally this study showed the need to better manage these areas, sensitive areas under the geomorphological point of view, even for areas that are on the outskirts of densely populated and whose demands tend to become increasingly salient, which can cause problems locations, reaching its population and economy, with serious consequences for the environment

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:32:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Mirne-Gleyde Lagares.pdf: 3056576 bytes, checksum: 253fc434fe186f1e97bea096568fac3b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-05 / The feast of St. John the Baptist studied held annually between the City of Heitoraí-GO and the District of Uruíta-Uruana-GO. It is a rural festival, takes place on or around June 23 and has a transitory year. The organizational work is unpaid and the food fresh and served in the last days are free. All the rituals, expenses and the work is carried out collectively by the communities living in these areas. The feast of St. John the Baptist began, according to respondents, for the payment of a promise made to the local stream to get water back in his bed. In this context the question is: What and how the factors and / or cultural events (re) configure the territory of the annual feast of St. John the Baptist? What's "live" a festive area so different from the commonly experienced in other parties in the news? What is the role of myth, tradition, rituals, "places of memory" of social networks and everyday life in the (re) configuration of the party? To answer these questions, we resort to sociology, anthropology, geography, among others. In science, we seek to expand knowledge about the categories territory, place and party, built on a concept of social networks and everyday to understand the cultural events of the feast of St. John the Baptist. For this, the methodological techniques used were subsidized by the human sciences such as participant observation, interviews, informal conversations, wheels conversations with the faithful participants, photos, folders and theoretical and methodological review. To analyze the seat, planning and social networks on the feast of St. John the Baptist were found to several authors: Paul Claval (1999, 2001), Bonnemaison (2002), Duvignaud (1983), Satyr Maia (2003), mozza (2006 ), Barcellos (1995), Serpa (2005), Haesbaert (2006, 2007), Brandão (2004), Almeida (2003, 2005), Person (2005), DaMatta (1997), Canclini (2003), Massey (2000) , Rosendahl (2003), among others. The results underscore the importance of social networks and daily maintenance on the territory of the feast of St. John the Baptist. Emphasize the strength of rural communities, as well as their identities managed from a base in common, dealing with the permanent nature. Furthermore, the results reinforce the existence of several other factors like the 'places of memory ", the" geossímbolos ", the" temporary ", the sacred ritual / secular, the strength of the festive tradition, the transformations (re) means the territory the feast of St. John the Baptist. The above elements are part of the (re) configuration of this territory festive, with each person, entwined in the (re) training of the web often the feast of St. John the Baptist. Finally, invigorates the idea that the border of this area is festive in men who have the identity, which directly influences to celebrate, see and experience the feast of St. John the Baptist. / A festa de São João Batista estudada acontece anualmente entre o município de Heitoraí-GO e o distrito de Uruíta-Uruana-GO. É uma festa rural, ocorre por volta do dia 23 de junho e possui caráter transitório anual. O trabalho de organização não é remunerado e a comida e doce servidos no último dia são gratuitos. Todos os rituais, despesas e o próprio trabalho são realizados coletivamente pelas comunidades residentes em tais áreas. A festa de São João Batista iniciou-se, segundo entrevistados, para o pagamento de uma promessa feita para o córrego local voltar a ter água no seu leito. Neste contexto, indaga-se: Quais e como os fatores e/ou manifestações socioculturais (re)configuram anualmente o território da festa de São João Batista? O que mantêm vivo um território festivo tão diferente dos comumente vividos em outras festas na atualidade? Qual o papel dos mitos, tradição, rituais, lugares de memória , das redes sociais e do cotidiano na (re)configuração da festa? Para responder a estes questionamentos, recorre-se à sociologia, a antropologia, a geografia, entre outras. Nestas ciências, busca-se ampliar o conhecimento sobre as categorias território, lugar e festa, embasadas no conceito de redes sociais e cotidiano, para se compreender as manifestações culturais da festa de São João Batista. Para tanto, as técnicas metodológicas utilizadas foram subsidiadas pelas ciências humanas como: observação-participante, entrevistas, conversas informais, rodas de conversas com os fiéis-participantes, fotos, folders e revisão teórico-metodológica. Para a análise dos lugares, do território e das redes sociais na festa de São João Batista vários autores foram referenciados: Paul Claval (1999, 2001), Bonnemaison (2002), Duvignaud (1983), Satyro Maia (2003), Chianca (2006), Barcellos (1995), Serpa (2005), Haesbaert (2006, 2007), Brandão (2004), Almeida (2003; 2005), Pessoa (2005), DaMatta (1997), Canclini (2003), Massey (2000), Rosendahl (2003), entre outros. Os resultados ressaltam a importância das redes sociais e do cotidiano na manutenção atual do território da festa de São João Batista. Enfatizam a força das comunidades rurais, bem como, de suas identidades geridas a partir de uma base em comum, a lida permanente com a natureza. Também os resultados reforçam a existência de vários outros fatores como os lugares de memória , os geossímbolos , os lugares temporários , os rituais sagrados/profanos, a força da tradição festiva, as transformações que (re)significam o território da festa de São João Batista. Os elementos destacados acima fazem parte da (re)configuração deste território festivo, estando, cada qual, entrelaçado na (re)formação frequente da teia da festa de São João Batista. Enfim, tonifica a idéia de que a fronteira deste território festivo está nos homens, na identidade que possuem, a qual influencia diretamente no sentido de festejar, perceber e viver a festa de São João Batista.

Opatrná, Michaela - The Library of Melchior Gniesen von Kobach Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University, Prague 1, sq. Jana Palacha 2 Thesis supervisor: PhDr. Richard Šípek, Ph.D. The aim of this Thesis is to describe the newly discovered Library of Melchior Gniesen von Kobach († 1627), the Council of the Appellate court and the Chancellor of the Maltese Order, which is currently located in Maltese library stored in the Library of the National Archive of the Czech Republic (includes 184 vol.). The theoretical part presents a basic information about the formation and form of town libraries in the early modern period, short description of the Knights of St John in Bohemia, description of the history and current state of the convent library in Prague, Melchior Gniesen's CV and presentation of his library. In the practical part thereis a complete catalog of the surviving books of the Library of Melchior Gniesen, its content and formal analysis, followed by evaluation of the importance of work. Used research methods are: observation, document analysis and analogy.

Writers of early American texts frequently express astonishment at the abundance of swarming things found in nature, from rustling clouds of insects to ponds teeming with fish to forests of countless trees. They report feeling overwhelmed, fascinated, and threatened by the dynamic, formless grouping of the swarm, in which the distinction between part and whole is lost in a blur of motion. In this dissertation, I trace these experiences of swarming across religious tracts, natural histories, philosophy texts, and historical fiction to argue that the swarm is crucial for understanding early American ways of relating to the environment. Scholars of the colonial period have long maintained that settlers viewed the American continent as a vast and empty land, available for settlement and resource extraction, and that the settler mind sought to manage the perceived chaos of their new surroundings through the application of European systems of thought and order. I argue, however, that the experience of the swarm indicates another kind of environmental relation, one in which the viewer and the natural world become ecologically entangled. In this entanglement, settlers found their preconceived ideas challenged, forcing them to revise or generate anew their theories of the world. While these ecological experiences of the natural world appear in texts by the settler writers Jonathan Edwards, Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, William Bartram, and James Fenimore Cooper, the ideas that develop through the swarm are influenced by or overlap with the epistemologies of the Native American peoples who inhabited the lands these settlers occupied. The project also addresses Indigenous modes of environmental relation and philosophies through Haudenosaunee cosmologies, Maskoke origins stories, and the work of the Tuscarora writer David Cusick. Overall, this dissertation offers an epistemological history of the colonial period that not only revises long- accepted characterizations of the settler mindset but that also takes seriously the histories of Indigenous philosophies as early American intellectual movements. In detailing experiences in which the mind and the natural world are not in fact separate entities, my work presents alternative modes of environmental relation and offers suggestions to today’s urgent need to rethink our orientation toward the natural world.

St. John 12:24, used by Dostoyevskij as an epigraph to his last and highly acclaimed novel BpaTbJI KapaMa30BbI (The Brothers Karamazov), served as an inspiration for Andre Gide. The title of the latter's contentious autobiography Si le grain ne meurt (If it die ... ), is part of the same biblical verse. The significance of Dostoyevskij's epigraph and Gide's title are critically examined with regard to ideologies expressed in their literary works. Analogies and contrasts are scrutinised: considerable similarities but more discrepancies are discerned. Intense crises in Dostoyevskij's life led to an upward movement, reflected in his oeuvre, reaching out toward Christ's message as revealed by St. John 12:24. On the other hand, Gide started his career imbued with the above message, but gradually he deviated from it and died an atheist. His fascination with Dostoyevskij prompted him to write a profound biography on the great Russian, containing a perceptive article on The Brothers Karamazov when this novel was still practically unknown in the West. Dostoyevskij's pre-eminence as ideological author, psychologist, philosopher and artist is highlighted while Gide is disclosed as the moralistic immoralist of his time. The thesis suggested here is that Dostoyevskij's ideology of self-abnegation in order to be regenerated into eternal life challenged Gide to reject this concept. Therein lies his paradoxical "adaptation". The purpose is to uncover the religious perceptions in Dostoyevskij's four major novels, to establish that his fictional characters, though never used as mouthpieces for the author, represent his universal philosophy and transmit the author's quest for truth to the reader, and finally to examine Gide's reaction to Dostoyevskij's influence / Classics & Modern European Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (Russian)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:31:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Venetia Durando Braga Rios.pdf: 1547121 bytes, checksum: e83605abfe41c76b346e8e33d569ea4b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-12-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In June 24, 1874, the city of Salvador woke up with an important commitment it was the day of the opening of the Asylum of St. John of God . For many years, the situation was at a standstill. After all, why all that interest in it? What did that spot, that place, mean for Tomé de Sousa's city? The aim of this text is to understand that moment in the life of the city. What did that space of medical power, of control of the deviates and degenerates, mean for the administration of urban daily life? It is our endeavour to understand that process through men and their histories, found in the street, in the School of Medicine, in the churches, in the warehouses, alleys and slopes. This work has the commitment to discussing the concept of "medicalization", so evidenced by many, from the theories developed in Europe, the autochthonous medical texts, the practices implemented in the asylum, the progress and the mistakes made. Stories lived in the heat of the moment, in the sultriness of the slow days of 19th century Salvador / Em 24 de junho de 1874, a cidade do Salvador acordou com um compromisso importante. Era o dia da inauguração do Asylo de São João de Deos . Muitos anos se gastaram em marchas e contra marchas. Afinal, por que tanto empenho por ele, o que significava para a cidade de Tomé de Sousa esse espaço, esse lugar? O texto tem como objetivo a compreensão desse momento na vida da cidade. O que significou para a administração do cotidiano urbano esse espaço de poder médico, de controle dos desviantes, dos degenerados? Foi nosso empenho entender esse processo através dos homens e suas histórias, encontrados nas ruas, na Escola de Medicina, nas igrejas, nos trapiches, becos e ladeiras. O trabalho tem o compromisso de discutir o conceito de medicalização tão evidenciado por muitos, a partir das teorias desenvolvidas na Europa, dos textos dos médicos da terra, da prática asilar empreendida, dos avanços e dos tropeços. Histórias vividas no calor da hora, no mormaço dos dias lentos da Salvador do século XIX

This dissertation studies the intersection of knowledge, culture, and power in contested coastal and estuarine space in eighteenth-century northeastern North America. It examines the interdependence of vernacular pilot knowledge and directed hydrographic survey, their integration into practices of warfare and governance, and roles in assimilating American space to metropolitan scientific and aesthetic discourses. It argues that the embodied skill and local knowledge of colonial and Aboriginal peoples served vital and underappreciated roles in Great Britain’s extension of overseas activity and interest, of maritime empire. It examines the maritimicity of empire: empire as adaptation to marine environments through which it conducted political influence and commercial endeavour. The materiality of maritime empire—its reliance on patterns of wind and current, on climate and weather, on local relations of sea to land, on proximity of spaces and resources to oceanic circuits—framed and delimited transnational flows of commerce and state power. This was especially so in coastal and riverine littoral spaces of northeastern North America. In this local Atlantic, pilot knowledge—and its systematization in marine cartography through hydrographic survey—adapted processes of empire to the materiality of the maritime, and especially to the littoral, environment. Eighteenth-century British state agents acting in northeastern North America—in Mi’kmaqi/Acadia/Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, and New England—developed new means of adapting this knowledge to the tasks of maritime empire, creating potent tools with which to extend Britain’s imperial power and influence amphibiously in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. If the open Atlantic became a maritime highway in this period, traversed with increasing frequency and ease, inshore waters remained dangerous bypaths, subject to geographical and meteorological hazards that checked overseas commercial exchange and the military and administrative processes that constituted maritime empire. While patterns of oceanic circulation permitted extension of these activities globally in the early modern period, the complex interrelation of marine and terrestrial geography and climate in coastal and estuarine waters long set limits on maritime imperial activity. This dissertation examines the nature of these limits, and the means that eighteenth-century British commercial and imperial actors developed to overcome them.

Northeastern British Columbia was occupied by the Cordilleran (CIS) and the Laurentide (LIS) ice sheets, however, the timing and extent remains contentious. The late Quaternary and Holocene history of this area is examined by exploring geomorphic, stratigraphic, geochemical and geochronologic components of glacial, deglacial, paraglacial and non-glacial landsystems. New tools, such as GIS, LiDAR, and new geochronologic methods, such as optical dating are used to understand the Quaternary geology and geomorphology of the region. Bedrock topography represents the base of the Quaternary section and modelling shows that paleovalleys, common in this region, host extensive Neogene sedimentary records. Stratigraphies from the Murray and Pine valleys indicate glaciation prior to the Mid-Wisconsinan (MIS 3) and during the Late Wiconsinan (MIS 2). Glacial landforms record Late Wisconsinan ice-sheet coalescence and reflect the complex interaction of the LIS and CIS margins. During deglaciation, the LIS and CIS separated and glacial Lake Peace (GLP) formed. Shoreline features enable reconstruction of lake and ice configurations. Four phases of GLP are preserved. Optical ages from Phase II indicate GLP occupied the area some time between ca. 16 – 14 ka yrs ago. The apparent tilt on the shorelines provides a measure of isostatic adjustments and suggests asynchronous retreat of first the LIS, then the CIS. The transition from paraglacial to boreal conditions was driven by climate change and is recorded by vegetation sucession and cessation of paraglacial processes. Optical ages from stabilized dunes and radiocarbon ages from organics date the transition between 12 – 11.5 ka yrs ago with full boreal conditions established by 10 ka yrs ago. The Holocene is dominated by erosional processes, however some systems are aggrading. A case study on a floodplain demonstrates that resistivity (Ohmmapper) surveys provide a grain-size proxy to suppliant GPR studies, which is essential for geophysical fluvial architectural analysis. In the study, the discrepancy between planform style (classic meander model) and subsurface geophysical surveys (indicative of vertical accretion associated with braided and wandering fluvial styles) reiterates cautions that planform may not always be a functions of depositional process and one may not be used to predict the other. / Graduate / 0372 / 0373 / 0368

St. John 12:24, used by Dostoyevskij as an epigraph to his last and highly acclaimed novel BpaTbJI KapaMa30BbI (The Brothers Karamazov), served as an inspiration for Andre Gide. The title of the latter's contentious autobiography Si le grain ne meurt (If it die ... ), is part of the same biblical verse. The significance of Dostoyevskij's epigraph and Gide's title are critically examined with regard to ideologies expressed in their literary works. Analogies and contrasts are scrutinised: considerable similarities but more discrepancies are discerned. Intense crises in Dostoyevskij's life led to an upward movement, reflected in his oeuvre, reaching out toward Christ's message as revealed by St. John 12:24. On the other hand, Gide started his career imbued with the above message, but gradually he deviated from it and died an atheist. His fascination with Dostoyevskij prompted him to write a profound biography on the great Russian, containing a perceptive article on The Brothers Karamazov when this novel was still practically unknown in the West. Dostoyevskij's pre-eminence as ideological author, psychologist, philosopher and artist is highlighted while Gide is disclosed as the moralistic immoralist of his time. The thesis suggested here is that Dostoyevskij's ideology of self-abnegation in order to be regenerated into eternal life challenged Gide to reject this concept. Therein lies his paradoxical "adaptation". The purpose is to uncover the religious perceptions in Dostoyevskij's four major novels, to establish that his fictional characters, though never used as mouthpieces for the author, represent his universal philosophy and transmit the author's quest for truth to the reader, and finally to examine Gide's reaction to Dostoyevskij's influence / Classics and Modern European Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (Russian)