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Tehnici narative în proza scurtă a lui F.M. Dostoievski
Narrative Techniques in the Short Prose of F.M. Dostoevsky

Author(s): Dora-Stefania Statulescu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Narrator; metaliterature; objectivity; subjectivity;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the narrative voice and its evolution in the early works of F.M. Dostoevsky. Three short stories (A Little Hero, A Christmas Tree and a Wedding, Another Man's Wife and a Husband under the Bed) are analyzed narratologically with the aim to highlight the narrative strategies used by the author. The article also presents an analysis of the main narrative techniques used in Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov, since in the mature works of the writer exhibit the same strategies, but at a more sophisticated level.

  • Issue Year: 4/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 107-116
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian