F.M. Dostoevsky’s Diary of a Writer (1876): about the Peasant Marey

Abstract

The article concerns one of the fictional pieces in Dostoevsky’s «A Writer’s Diary», namely «The Peasant Marey», and its publicistic context. Some factual, literature and folklore sources are named. It is the author’s opinion that the final goal of using them is widening of chronological and extensional bounds of the narrative; as a result, the particular case the story is based on takes a new meaning and lets Dostoevsky reason about West European and Slavic / Russian civilizations.

Keywords

• k. aksakov
• peasant marey
• marius
• rome
• volga
• mikula
• civilizations
• formulae
• ideals