Motiv snu a Dostojevského Deník spisovatele
The Motif of a Dream and Dostoyevsky’s Diary of a Writer

Author(s): Lenka Paučová
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Russian Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: F. M. Dostoyevsky; Diary of a Writer; motif; dream and dreaming; typology and function of dreams;
Summary/Abstract: Dream and dreaming belong to the components of works written by Fyodor Mikhailowich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) which have been remained a long time underrated. In the present paper the author deals with a motif of a dream that appears, except for another motifs, for instance the motif of an accidental family, four elements, suicide or a tortured horse, in Dostoyevsky’s Diary of a Writer. The author of the study tries to answer a question how the motif of a dream in Dostoyevsky’s works evolves, characterizes its place in the Diary of a Writer and shows on other relations in which are dreams from the Diary of a Writer with Dostoyevsky’s works published before, during and after his Diary of a Writer.

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