Author’s strategy creating a synthetic genre of philosophical portrait-essay: the image of N. A. Nekrasov in “The Diary of a Writer”

E.  A. Akelkina

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Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Omsk, Russian Federation

Author’s strategy creating a synthetic genre of philosophical portrait-essay: the image of N. A. Nekrasov in “The Diary of a Writer” by F. M. Dostoevsky, 1877

Abstract: The article analyzes the genre of philosophical portrait-essay using the example of N. A. Nekrasov’s image in “The Diary of a Writer” by F. M. Dostoevsky, 1877. The philosophical scale of this genre is formed by personal experience and generalizing fiction combination. A Writer i.e. a thinker innovatively opens a free composition, installation of different narrative layers, playing a variety of subject roles e.g. an eyewitness, a memoirist, a peer-writer, a cultural historian, a journalist, and a witness on the Nekrasov’s side. In the framework of the inserted genre of philosophical portrait-essay, Dostoevsky creates a plot of personality and literary creativity unity being so relevant to the author’s fate in the twentieth century; the unity is revealed through the motives of love, death, search of raison d’etre and the new quality of literature, historical and personal memory.

Keywords: Dostoevsky, Nekrasov, philosophical portrait-essay, The Diary of a Writer, narration.

Paper submitted: December 1, 2021.

For citation: Akel’kina E. A. (2022). Author’s strategy creating a synthetic genre of philosophical portrait-essay: the image of N. A. Nekrasov in “The Diary of a Writer” by F. M. Dostoevsky, 1877. Russian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 18–22. DOI: 10.17238/issn1998-5320.2022.16.2.2.

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