THIS ISSUE OF DOSTOEVSKY
STUDIES IS DEDICATED TO
PROFESSOR RENÉ WELLEK
ON THE OCCASION OF HIS
80TH BIRTHDAY

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Nomination of Professor René Wellek as Honorary President of IDS

It gives me great pleasure to nominate Professor René Wellek as an Honorary President of the International Dostoevsky Society. Neither the achievements or person of René Wellek, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University, require any introduction to scholars of the world. He is the foremost scholar in the field of comparative literature and criticism today. His monumental History of Criticism has become a unique and fundamental force in world scholarship. His other works, for example, Theory of Literature (with Austin Warren) and The Rise of English Literary History, his numerous  essays ranging into all aspects of literature and criticism in both east and west, are studied throughout the world. Professor Wellek, an editor of an important collection of essays on Dostoevsky and a longtime scholar of Slavic literatures, has participated in many of our symposiums as speaker and commentator. He has contributed enormously to the high intellectual level of our symposiums. He is with us today in Cerisy-la-Salle. Once again, I recommend him with the greatest of pleasure as an Honorary President of the International Dostoevsky Society.

Robert Louis Jackson 

President of IDS

Cerisy-la-Salle

August 20, 1983