More on the Poetics of Paradox: Baron Brambeus as a “Harbinger of Dostoevsky” Cover Image

Еще о поэтике парадокса: Барон Брамбеус как «предтеча Достоевского»
More on the Poetics of Paradox: Baron Brambeus as a “Harbinger of Dostoevsky”

Author(s): Vyacheslav Koshelev
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Russian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: poetics of paradox; narration; literary mask; style; Baron Brambeus; F. M. Dostoevsky;

Summary/Abstract: The article studies a historical course of the poetics of paradox (paràdoxos, Greek — strange, unexpected), i. e. such an opinion, speculation or sentence that contradicts not only a conventional image but a common sense too. V. N. Zakharov has educed the limits and forms of the paradox manifestation in the publicistic texts of F. M. Dostoevsky. The author of the article shows that Dostoevsky, as a paradoxographer, had an undeniable precursor O. I. Senkovsky, the author of “The Pages of Baron Brambeus” (1856–1858). Considering a general idea of paradox as an ultra usual, ultra probable and at the same time odd, amazing, excellent phenomenon Baron Brambeus apparently approaches the poetics of “A Writer’s Diary”.

  • Issue Year: 17/2019
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 44-61
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Russian