PATRISTIC “HEART” MOTIVE IN THE F. M. DOSTOEVSKY`S NOVEL “THE IDIOT”

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O. V. Leushina,
postgraduate, Omsk State Pedagogical University,
14 Naberezhnaya Tukhachevskogo, Omsk, 644099, Russian Federation ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4915-9333
e-mail: olga.skyward@gmail.com

PATRISTIC “HEART” MOTIVE IN THE F. M. DOSTOEVSKY`S NOVEL “THE IDIOT”

Introduction. The article deals with the features of the patristic “heart” motive in the poetics of F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot”. The life of Prince Myshkin is ingenuously the life of a spirit or the life of a “beautiful” heart. Therefore, the disclosure of the “spiritual” in the image of the hero F. M. Dostoevsky reveals through a variety of descriptions and examples of the Prince’s life of a “heart”, which can be called as the “heart” motive.

Methodology. The context-motive analysis and also the concept of systematic-structural study leaning on M. M. Bakhtin and Yu. M. Lotman`s researches is the cornerstone of work. The motive analysis makes a start from A. M. Bulanov`s ideas about the patristic motive of the “heart” and the patristic tradition`s influence on the F. M. Dostoevsky`s work.

Results. The patristic context of F. M. Dostoevsky`s prose, poetics of the patristic motive of the heart is analyzed.

Conclusions. F. M. Dostoevsky`s novel “The Idiot” opens wide Christian, including patristic, context. Features of the patristic motive of the “heart” in the artistic structure of the novel “The Idiot” can be presented as a set of motives. Most of all, the motive of the “heart” is revealed in the image of Prince Myshkin. System-structural analysis of the text reveals a group of “patristic” motives. The motive of the “heart” is disclosed at different levels of the text.

Keywords: Dostoevsky, the poetics of the novel “The Idiot”, the motive, the patristic context.

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