Dostojevského Deník spisovatele v kontextech a konfrontacích
Dostoevsky’s Writer’s Diary in the Contexts and Confrontations

Author(s): Lenka Odehnalová
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky; diary; Russian literature;
Summary/Abstract: The Writer’s Diary is a work that has so far failed to receive as much attention as Dostoevsky’s novels in the Czech and Slovak milieus. The presented monograph consists of seven chapters and comments on the Russian writer's late work from four aspects: the genre, theme, motif and reception. Regarding the theme, the Writer’s Diary belongs in the so-called literary diary. The work is examined with view to the period of its creation, the author’s personality and the poetological features. The Writer’s Diary also defines three principal themes (Russia and the West, the image of St. Petersburg, characters of the children and the form of childhood), specific features of literary genres (tales with fantasy elements, essays, letters, memoirs and critical essays) and specific features of the motifs (the natural elements or the so-called random family and dreams). The last chapter is focused on reception of the work in the Czech and Slovak milieus.

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