"DON QUIXOTE" OF M. CERVANTES AND "THE IDIOT" OF F. DOSTOEVSKY: PLOT PERVERSION OF "HIGH WORDS"

Abstract

The paper includes a comparative study of the plot fate of "high words" on the material of M. Cervantes’ "Don Quixote" and F. Dostoevsky’s "The Idiot". In this perspective the problem was not formulated, although the analytical correlation of the main characters of the novels, especially in the domestic literary criticism, had its own history, initiated owing to F. Dostoevsky’s textual indication of the long literary relationship of the Russian prince with the Spanish hidalgo. The experience of reflection of borrowed Lev Myshkin similarities with Don Quixote is taken into account and it is updated in the decision of the designated problem. This experience plays the role of an explanatory context for the discussion of content and genre modifications of "high words", their recipients, their participation in the semantic structure of the text and their semantic relations with other speech genres, both traditional and historically relative (proverb, father's farewell, sermon and etc.). Presented in the format of the local comments literary context of the second plan ("Hamlet" of W. Shakespeare, "Dead Souls" of N. Gogol, "Oblomov" of I. Goncharov, "Fathers and Sons" of I. Turgenev, plays of A. Ostrovsky, "Red flower" of V. Garshin, and others) is also rather important for the comparative study of the investigated problem. Comparative method of the reading of these literary texts is not devoid of some metaphorical nature.

Keywords

• don quixote
• m. cervantes
• the idiot
• f. dostoevsky
• "high words"
• the plot
• the comparative analysis
• дон кихот
• м. сервантес
• идиот
• ф. достоевский
• "высокое слово"
• сюжет
• компаративный анализ