THE PATTERN OF USE OF EPISTOLARY MATERIAL IN N. V. GOGOL’S "SELECTED PASSAGES FROM CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE FRIENDS"
Ershov Artem Gennad'evich
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Abstract. The article deals with the problem of N. V. Gogol’s use of the real letters in the process of working on the book "Selected Passages from Correspondence with the Friends" (1847). On the basis of the comparative analysis of the fragments of the writer’s real letters with the fragments of the chapters of the book, Gogol’s work with documentary materials is described. The author aims to trace the process of transformation of the original letter into the chapter of the final work, denoting the essence of Gogol’s method of working with documentary sources.
Key words and phrases: документальные материалы, эпистолярные материалы, документализм, поздний период творчества Н. В. Гоголя, "Выбранные места из переписки с друзьями", documentary materials, epistolary materials, documentary literary work, the late period of Nikolai Gogol’s creativity, "Selected Passages from Correspondence with the Friends"
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