Мифологизация биографического нарратива в дореволюционных энциклопедических статьях о Достоевском
Dostoevsky in Pre-revolutionary Encyclopedias: Methodological Problems of Biographical Image Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The article describes a number of methodological problems in the study of Dostoevsky’s biographical narrative and his receptive tradition as a whole: the subjectivity of traditional research approaches, the receptive conflict between the biographical myth and negative “doubles” of the writer, the contradictions of mass and individual perception. The author, in search of the most common elements of Dostoevsky’s biographical narrative, turns to prerevolutionary encyclopaedic articles about the writer. It is presumed that the genre itself, in which the biographical narrative exists here, excludes subjective distortions of the image, represents Dostoevsky in the most generalized, “common” version. This image of Dostoevsky is emphasized literary-centered, at the same time grotesquely simplified and equipped with a parodying double.

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