GENRE PERIPETIES OF FACT IN THE MASTER OF PETERSBURG BY J. M. COETZEE

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The paper is concerned with the nature of fact, as a part of the struc- ture of genre-hybrid fiction biographies. It is assumed that any fact created by author‘s imagination is implicitly literary unless it is a specific document. This argument is being supported by theoretical justifications by J. Tynyanov. The examples of the peripeteia of real facts about the personality and work of F. Dostoevsky in the genre of fictional biography are from the novel The Master of Petersburg by J. M. Coetzee. In this work, the author‘s interpreta- tion is achieved through an original intertextual play that reproduces Dostoev- sky‘s literary personality and the complex construction of his creative world.


GENRE PERIPETIES OF FACT IN THE MASTER OF PETERSBURG BY J. M. COETZEE

  • GENRE PERIPETIES OF FACT IN THE MASTER OF PETERSBURG BY J. M. COETZEE
    • FIRST PUBLISHED:
    • VOLUME/ISSUE: КНИГА 8
    • PUBLISHER: Institute for Literature
    • ORGANIZATION: Institute for Literature - BAS, BULGARIA
    • ISSN (Print): 2738-7631 || ISSN (Online): 2815-2999
  • GENRE PERIPETIES OF FACT IN THE MASTER OF PETERSBURG BY J. M. COETZEE
    Abstract:

    The paper is concerned with the nature of fact, as a part of the struc- ture of genre-hybrid fiction biographies. It is assumed that any fact created by author‘s imagination is implicitly literary unless it is a specific document. This argument is being supported by theoretical justifications by J. Tynyanov. The examples of the peripeteia of real facts about the personality and work of F. Dostoevsky in the genre of fictional biography are from the novel The Master of Petersburg by J. M. Coetzee. In this work, the author‘s interpreta- tion is achieved through an original intertextual play that reproduces Dostoev- sky‘s literary personality and the complex construction of his creative world.

    Subject: RUSSIAN-WESTERN PERSPECTIVES
    Keywords: Кутси, Достоевски, литературен факт, интертекст