„Мечтателят“, „играчът“, „мистикът“ – метафизическите типове на героите на Достоевски
„The Dreamer“, „The Gambler“, „The Mystic“: The Metaphysical Types of Dostoyevsky’s Characters

Summary/Abstract: Main characters of the early creativity of F. Dostoevsky demonstrate the metaphysical types of person reflecting the important features of human essence. In the protagonist of the novel “The Gambler” such three “types” incorporate. “Dreamer” builds the fantastic world to push the real world away; “gambler” rejects all definitions which are imposed to him by a reality and finds internal freedom; “mystic” on the basis of found freedom defines himself the future and subordinates the world to the will. Dostoevsky considers type of “gambler” is the most typical for Russian national character.

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