Рукопись Ипполита Терентьева в романе Ф. М. Достоевского «Идиот»: жанр и нарративные стратегии
The Manuscript of Ippolit Terentyev in the Novel “The Idiot” by F. M. Dostoevsky: Genre and Narrative Strategies

Summary/Abstract: The manuscript of Ippolit Terentyev “My Indispensable Explication”, referred to as an “article” or a “notebook” in Dostoevsky’s novel, is traditionally seen as a confession in literary studies. Meanwhile, the genre and narrative structure of Ippolit’s manuscript is not homogeneous, but multilayer. The conjugacy of various discursive strategies of justifications of the “last conviction” of the ideological self-destroyer in the text, from the viewpoint of the logic of the conscious (thesis) and subconscious and “true live” (antithesis), enlarges genre limits of the confessional word. The idea of the human right to commit suicide appears in the manuscript in the form of the number of conclusions in the narration that rather resembles a philosophical and publicistic discourse, the convincing and fervent emotional manner of which refers us to the genre of a preaching text.

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