„Zamknięty świat samobójstwa” – opowiadanie Fiodora Dostojewskiego "Potulna"
„A closed world of suicide” – "Potulna", a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Author(s): Mirosława Michalska-Suchanek
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Dostoyevsky; fatalistic suicide victim; escapist suicide victim; female suicide victims
Summary/Abstract: Apart from inherently associated with Fyodor Dostoyevsky ‘calculated’ egoistic, fatalistic and escapist suicides became one of the major themes in the writer’s work. The article attempts to analyze the image of the title character of the story titled "Potulna", which combines the features of both types of suicidal death. The starting point for the analysis is the writer’s belief that the suicide is situated in the center of the “suicidogenic space”, understood as the whole of dynamically growing circumstances and conditions that, extended in time, determine the final solution. The true meaning of suicide is constituted through the process of cognition, and the final act itself is the tragic culmination of a tangle of interrelated factors.

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