Poetika dopisu v tvorbě F. M. Dostojevského
Poetics of the letter in the works of F. M. Dostoyevsky

Author(s): Lenka Paučová
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Russian Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: letter; correspondence; works by F. M. Dostoyevsky; epistolary novel; Poor People; epistolary short story; Novel in Nine Letters;
Summary/Abstract: The author of the present paper deals with character of a letter in works by F. M. Dostoyevsky who is called an autobiographical writer because of a range of autobiographical genres and features in his works. The author focuses her attention on the letter in correspondence as authentic witness of Dostoyevsky’s life. Secondly, she deals with readers’ letters which influenced character of Diary of a Writer, the work moving on the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. Concentrating on fictional works by Dostoyevsky, the author analyses the novel Poor People and short story Novel in Nine Letters, which is an epistolary work in which a fictional letter is considered as witness of a tough life of people living in Petersburg in the 1840s.

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