REALISM OF THE BREAKTHROUGH. THE INTERNAL TEXT IN FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY'S PROSE

• Authors: Pietrzak P.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author analyses the specific construction of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's prose, which he calls the 'internal text'. He assumes that it is an additional structure of signs placed into a literary text that breaks the text-reality tension (this is what makes it different from a common case of 'story within a story' and a quotation). Thus Dostoyevsky's writings transcends not only the borders of broadly understood realism, but also touches the relationship between literature and reality in total. At the same time, the author recalls the older, 'pre-Balzacian' type of novel, the sources of which are found in Cervantes's 'Don Quixote'. This model questions the narrator's credibility and obviousness of the world presented. Pietrzak proves that in Dostoyevsky's text, both the internal text and the world presented are in a dialectic tension and continuously shape one another.

Keywords

EN

'DON QUIXOTE'; 'INTERNAL TEXT'; CERVANTES; DOSTOYEVSKY F.; LITERATURE - REALITY

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Literacki
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 97
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 127-153
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pietrzak P.

• P. Pietrzak, Uniwersytet Warszawski, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01343024