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Man in the System of Objective, Natural and Social Coordinates of the Artistic World in the Early Works of F. Dostoevsky

Student: Bykova Anna

Supervisor: Leonid Bolshukhin

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2021

Dostoevsky’s early work (1846 – 1848) is of growing research interest. This period has received relatively little scholarly attention. As a result, the exploration of the place of urban space in the structure of Dostoevsky’s literary world remains incomplete. Previous studies have discussed the spatial significance of Saint Petersburg in the writer’s later novels – Crime and Punishment (1866) and The Idiot (1869) (e.g. Grossman, 1939; Antsiferov, 1991; Lotman, 2002; Sabaeva, 2015). There is a lack of studies that explores the construction of the literary world in the writer’s early works. The purpose of this paper is to establish the semantics of the natural world (as well as the subject and social) in the structure of Dostoevsky’s early works. The paper uses a theoretic method and a comparative method. This study contends that Dostoevsky’s socio – psychological prose creates the hero’s world in the atmosphere of urban attributes: streets, alleys, embankments and bridges, and the natural world is invisible due to the urban world order. However, the natural world somehow surrounds the character at the moment of his actions and thoughts about the eternal and the mortal. The research demonstrates how Dostoevsky’s world divides into several so – called “spaces for the hero’s habitation”: house and street, city and nature.

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