Поэтика завершения в романе Ф. М. Достоевского «Бесы»
The Poetics of Completion in the Novel by F. M. Dostoevsky “Demons”

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the poetics of completion in the novel “Demons” by F. M. Dostoevsky, and reveals the features of the “Conclusion” that reveals and generalizes the main idea of the work. The author analyzes the meaning of Stavrogin’s letter to Daria Pavlovna Shatov, which sums up the hero’s storyline, and clarifies the plot-composition function of the image of Marya Timofeevna. The novel symbolism of “lameness” excludes the possibility of considering the heroine as an “object of medicine” (L. I. Saraskina). The value of anachronism, which creates the originality of the novel’s completion, is analyzed. The significance of semantic comparison of the story lines of Stepan Trofimovich and Nikolai Vsevolodovich is considered. The relationship between Stepan Trofimovich’s Epiphany episode and the epigraph for expressing the idea of the novel is analyzed. When studying this problem, the preparatory materials of the work were involved. It is proved that in the novel “Demons” F. M. Dostoevsky showed the futility of criminal delusions and a difficult but necessary way to overcome them, and also expressed hope for the healing of Russia from these dangerous delusions.

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