Unpublished Notes to the Novel "A Raw Youth" by Fyodor Dostoevsky Cover Image

Неопубликованные записи к роману Ф. М. Достоевского «Подросток»
Unpublished Notes to the Novel "A Raw Youth" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Author(s): Natalia Aleksandrovna Tarasova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: Dostoevsky;textual criticism; draft manuscripts; novel "A Raw Youth";

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicate to the textual research of draft manuscripts of the novel "A Raw Youth" and the problem of omissions of the author’s text when published. Analysis of these omissions gives an opportunity to define their origins, and thus, challenging fragments in the draft manuscripts. As a result, this kind of errors in reading the author’s text becomes possible when working with such manuscripts. The most common reasons for these omissions are a particular position of the notes on the page (a marginal character of the notes) and numerous, sometimes hard-to-read author’s corrections (above all, strikethrough texts and insertions). Consequently, the text fragments omitted by the researchers are not published till now. Their analysis enables to represent the author’s text in full, determine the meaning of the omitted fragments in the artistic context of the novel manuscripts and their correspondence to the draft and final text of the literary work.

  • Issue Year: 2/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 3-21
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English, Russian