Children’s Theme in F. M. Dostoevsky’s and N. V. Gogol’s Creative Work: Comparative Analysis
Aristova Svetlana Alexandrovna
Saint Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Economics
Submitted: 11.02.2022
Abstract. The aim of the study is to analyse the motives related to the embodiment of the childhood theme borrowed by F. M. Dostoevsky from N. V. Gogol’s works: the motive of connection between children and money, the motive of using children and the childlike as moral blackmail, the motive of children’s innocence and purity as opposed to adults’ vulgarity and selfishness, the motive of children’s suffering. The article examines in detail, with the involvement of numerous examples from these authors’ works, the most diverse cases of textual, plot and ideological coincidence observed in the embodiment of the childhood theme in F. M. Dostoevsky’s and N. V. Gogol’s works. The scientific novelty lies in the use of large factual material and insufficient knowledge of the stated aspect in literary circles. As a result, a number of key echoes and borrowings from N. V. Gogol’s creativity are revealed in F. M. Dostoevsky’s works.
Key words and phrases: Ф. М. Достоевский, Н. В. Гоголь, феномен детства, тема детства, сюжетные переклички, F. M. Dostoevsky, N. V. Gogol, phenomenon of childhood, theme of childhood, plot similarities
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