THE DIARIES AND THE MEMOIRS BY A. M. DOSTOEVSKY AS THE ARTISTIC AND LITERARY UNITY
Documentary texts describe not only the facts, but also favour their creative interpretation. It is the main stylistic feature of the so-called “documental”, non-fi ction literature. Diaries and memoirs can be called one of the popular genres of non-fi ctional literature. Despite the artistic di...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Russian |
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Petrozavodsk State University
2016-03-01
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| Series: | Problemy Istoričeskoj Poètiki |
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| Online Access: | http://poetica.pro/files/redaktor_pdf/1456391207.pdf |
| Summary: | Documentary texts describe not only the facts, but also favour their
creative interpretation. It is the main stylistic feature of the so-called
“documental”, non-fi ction literature. Diaries and memoirs can be called one
of the popular genres of non-fi ctional literature. Despite the artistic diversity
of the memoirs, diaries are also stylistically intertextual. They contain
examples of different genres: letters, chronicles, biographical portraits, ragments of recollections, writing experiences, some quotations from other
literary texts and so on. The “Memoirs” and the diaries of Andrew Dostoevsky
are original literary texts and they correspond to each other. Firstly, they
correlate with one another chronologically. The diaries contain lots of textual
references that imply the author’s work on the “Memoirs”. Secondly, both
literary sources expand the narrative characteristics of the documentary
genre and reveal A. M. Dostoevsky’s love to family traditions and values.
“Family”, “home” are the key images both of the “Memoirs” and of the diaries.
In the “Memoirs” the artistic chronotope develops from the public life
towards the author’s private life (life as the change of apartments). In another
way the diaries bring together family’s everyday narrations with the social life
of the epoch. |
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| ISSN: | 1026-9479 1026-9479 |