F.M. Dostoevky’s image in the Russian lyrics of the 19th – 20th centuries

Abstract

The subject of research in this article includes Fyodor Dostoevsky’s image created in works of Russian 19th – 20th century poets (Konstantin Sluchevsky, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Valery Bryusov, Sasha Chorny, Max Voloshin, Georgy Ivanov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Nikolai Aseyev, Pavel Antokolsky, Boris Slutsky, Мikhail A. Svetlov, Yevgeny Rein, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, etc.). The genius image has not been examined by scientists in the aforesaid contexts so far. This determines the novelty of this research. Analysis of lyric texts, in which Fyodor Dostoevsky is mentioned, has allowed to identify the aspects of perception of the writer’s personality and works significant for the Russian culture, and to analyse the surname of Dostoevsky as a linguocultureme. The author set an aim to analyse the writer’s image components, to reveal their causes, to separate the stereotypic from the individual. Intertextual analysis, biographic, comparative, hermeneutical, imagological methods and continuous sampling are used in the work. As a result of the research the author comes to the following conclusions; Fyodor Dostoevsky’s image in the Russian lyrics of the 19th – 20th centuries includes the following elements: allusions to his works, references to the writer’s biography, inclusion of Fyodor Dostoevsky into a number of other Russian writers and his perception in the worldwide context, general description of his creative work and stylistic features. Specific traits of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s image in the Russian lyrics include usage of the hodonym Nevsky and epithet резкий (sharp, strongly-worded) as rhymes to the writer’s surname. It is also noteworthy that Fyodor Dostoevsky’s surname is used as a qualitative adjective in some contexts and describes properties of other images.