‘NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND’ BY F.M. DOSTOEVSKY IN THE HISTORY OF THE FOREIGN CONFESSIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL NOVEL
Abstract
Dzhumailo O.A.
Keywords: confessional novel, Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground reception, European existentialism, incompleteness.
This article makes an attempt to specify the place of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground in the history of confessional novel genre in foreign literature. The author analyses literary and critical interpretations of the novel’s confessional elements, done by Russian and foreign researchers. They touch upon the most controversial problems of aesthetics and poetics in the novel, its connection with European existentialism. The most interesting aspect according to many researchers is that the novel is confessionally unfinished or incomplete.
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