«Это не просто поэмы…»: несколько заметок на полях письма Ф. М. Достоевского А. Н. Майкову от 15 (27) мая 1869 года
“These Are Not Only Poems…”: Some Marginal Notes in the Letter of F. M. Dostoevsky to A. N. Maikov, Dated on May 15 (27), 1869

Summary/Abstract: In his letter from Florence dated on 15th (27) May, 1869, F. M. Dostoevsky explains to Apollon Maikov a whole series of his ideas about both poetics and ideology. Some parts of the letter are devoted to the poetry and poetic genres, the fundamental pivotal points in Russian history and the problems of its explanation, atheism and Christianity which became a new centre of the writer’s thoughts at that time. The article focuses on the concept of poetry that appears in the letter and, particularly, on the interpretation by Dostoevsky of the narrative and didactic character of the genre of “poem”. Another important aspect of the analysis related to the previous one, concerns the study of a new narrative technique elaborated by Dostoevsky and consisting in a “quasi-artistical” description of the poetical writings.

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