In the section The Plot and the Methods of Its Description
The Sign of Dostoevsky in the Story «The Bride» by A. P. Chekhov
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Ключевые слова
chekhov, story «the bride», the motif of departure, personage couple: the bride – «f propagandist», intertextual call-over, dostoyevsky, «demons»
Abstract
The story «The Bride» by Chekhov is considered in the aspect of the author’s reexamination of the plot model which is crucial for the Russian literature of the 19th century and known as «a Russian man at rendezvous». The trace of the author’s dialogue with F. M. Dostoyevsky’s novel «The Demons» is reviewed.
Bibliographic reference
Yakimova Lyudmila P. The Sign of Dostoevsky in the Story «The Bride» by A. P. Chekhov // Сюжетология и сюжетография. 2013. № 2. Pp. 24–29.