Open AccessDostoevsky’s Creative Diaries: The Adolescent
Author(s) -
Natalia A. Tarasova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
dostoevskij i mirovaâ kulʹtura. filologičeskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-8512
pISSN - 2619-0311
DOI - 10.22455/2619-0311-2021-2-128-150
Subject(s) - reading (process) , creative work , plan (archaeology) , literature , creative writing , psychology , work (physics) , process (computing) , mathematics education , history , visual arts , computer science , linguistics , art , philosophy , engineering , mechanical engineering , archaeology , operating system
The work deals with the textual study of rough manuscripts of the novel The Adolescent, specifically the correction of publisher’s errors in reading the manuscripts, together with the study of Dostoevsky’s creative process and the shaping of the concept of the novel in the phase of rough drafts. The article analyzes the connections between The Adolescent and Dostoevsky’s unrealized plan for The Life of a Great Sinner, as well as Pushkin and Lermontov’s motifs that were important for Dostoevsky’s creative method during the his work on the novel The Adolescent.