DOSTOEVSKY’S DOUBLE AND UNDERGROUND WORLD (II)
DOSTOEVSKY’S DOUBLE AND UNDERGROUND WORLD (II)

Summary/Abstract: The study examines the criticism operated by Dobrolyubov to early Dostoevsky’s work. Russian critic does not understand the profound original character of the novels and short stories written by Dostoevsky, he does not want to understand that Dostoevsky’s art cannot be understood through his criteria of analysis, namely the ones specific to the paradigm of literary realism. The aesthetics is confused at him with the description of the poor folk's life, of the suffering of the people, of the common life. Everything that does not fit this aesthetic and literary canon is a failure in terms of art. But this is not the way to understand Dostoevsky’s work. The Double is a visual drama, full of dark humour, in which the central character sees in doubling a solution to his unhappiness. Finally, instead of long dreamed happiness, the double bring with him despair and death.

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