Dostoyevski Goes to the Beach (Dostoevski va a la playa) *

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Its main character, Fyodor Dostoyevski is a descendant of the Russian writer, a man who has lived in Chile longer than he can remember. He works as a private investigator, mostly dealing with cases initiated by the petty paranoias and desires people's egos project onto reality. He is a mirror to the hallucinations they want to hide from themselves. He has chosen to be poor in spite of there being plenty of opportunities to make easy money as a bodyguard or as a gang member for the transnational potentates who, attracted by the neoliberal policies of the military government, have come to Chile to invest capital in the midst of a climate of violence. He frequents a shabby nightclub where his lover/informant, Natasha, sings, sometimes even in Russian. Friends think Dostoyevski is "strange," a "saint." He has a keen intuition that his present life is marked by an ethical mission he has been pursuing in other lives. Traces of it come to him mainly through dreams he has of a past life in nineteenth-century Russia, related to the novel Crime and Punishment. On the track of that mission, Dostoyevski finds the energy and the passion to follow it through relentlessly, although he is usually lethargic from the tranquilizers prescribed for his epilepsy. </div> <bR> <div> Coinciding with the arrival in Chile of Stavros, a transnational magnate who is buying the beaches in the area of Valparaiso (one of the major ports in the country), a series of unsolved murders of very old male drifters has been detected at a beach and covered up by the police, although the media controlled by Stavros does put out distorted information. Dostoyevski becomes involved when Cecilia, secretary to the doctor who treats him, hires the private investigator after her estranged father, a drifter, disappears. Coopted by Stavros with magnificence, she eventually wants to call the investigation off. Nevertheless, Dostoyevski's dreams have propelled him to relentless action. With the aid of his doctor, the investigator is able to examine the corpses at the morgue. Some of them have been the victims of sexual mutilations, rape and vampirism while others show an unnatural capacity to regenerate body tissues. As Dostoyevski resolves to expose Stavros as a murderer and prepares himself for a major confrontation with evil, Stavros's press puts out diversionary news attributing the murders to an underling. At the same time the police arrest Dostoyevski and charge him with the murders of his doctor and Natasha, his lover. Later on he is freed for lack of evidence. Undaunted, Dostoyevski, himself an old man, goes to the beach as a decoy to attract and confront Stavros, and perhaps to be killed.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Other plays by <A HREF="de_la_perra.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Marco Antonio de la Parra">Marco Antonio de la Parra</A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="king_kong.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="King Kong Palace ">King Kong Palace</A></div> <div> <A HREF="secret.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Secret Obsenities (La secreta obscenidad">Secret Obsenities (La secreta obscenidad de cada día)</A></div> <div> <A HREF="dead_father.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Dead Father (El Padre Muerto">The Dead Father (El Padre Muerto)</A></div> <div> <A HREF="every_young.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Every Young Womans Desire (El deseo de t">Every Young Woman's Desire (El deseo de toda ciudadana) *</A></div> <div> <A HREF="killer_tangos.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Killer Tangos (Matatangos) ">Killer Tangos (Matatangos)</A></div> <div> <A HREF="raw.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Raw, The Cooked, and the Rotten (Lo ">The Raw, The Cooked, and the Rotten (Lo crudo, lo cocido, lo podrido) *</A></div> <div> <A HREF="monogamy.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Monogamy (Monogamia)">Monogamy (Monogamia)</A></div> <div> <A HREF="god_has_died.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="God Has Died or the Will of power (Dios ">God Has Died or the Will of power (Dios ha muerto o La Voluntad del Poder) </A></div> <div> <A HREF="god_has_died.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="God Has Died or the Will of power (Dios ">The </A><A HREF="sleepless.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Sleepless Land, the Mother Whore or ">Sleepless Land, the Mother Whore or the Mother Country: Greek Tragedy Without Greeks: (La Tierra Insomne, La Puta Madre o La Madre Patria)</A></div> <div> <A HREF="continent.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Black Continent (El continente negro">The Black Continent (El continente negro)</A></div> <div> <A HREF="ophelia_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ophelia or The Dead mother (Ofelia o la ">Ophelia or The Dead mother (Ofelia o la madre muerta)</A></div> <div> <A HREF="small_history.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Small History of Chile (La pequeña h">The Small History of Chile (La pequeña historia de Chile) </A></div> <div> <A HREF="on_the_air.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="We are on the Air (Estamos en el aire)">We are on the Air (Estamos en el aire)</A></div> <div> <A HREF="seamstresses.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Seamstresses (Las costureras)">The Seamstresses (Las costureras)</A></div> <div> <A HREF="happyrevolt.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" The Revolt of Happiness (La rebelión de">The Revolt of Happiness (La rebelión de la felicidad)</A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>