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
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Rumyana Evtimova
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, BulgariaAssoc. Prof. Rumiana Evtimova, PhD, is a literary scholar, a long-time lecturer in Russian literature. She has lectured at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, Konstantin Preslavski University of Shumen, and also at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Her research interests focus on the diversity of artistic phenomena in the Silver Age of Russian culture, the prose of Vladimir Nabokov and Mikhail Bulgakov, the essays and poetry of Joseph Brodsky and others. She has studied the reception of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Bulgakov in contemporary Russian and Polish drama. She has written a number of papers in specialized academic journals and collections, as well as a section in the textbook Russian Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries (Plovdiv, 2005). She has published the books Conjectures on Meaning (2006) and Receptions and Reflections (2019). She translates academic texts and fiction from Russian, Belarusian and Polish and has written prefaces to some of the books. She has been given the award for the best book on literary studies in 2019 by the Faculty of Slavonic Philologies at St. Kliment Ohridski University.
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Abstract:ABSTRACTThe 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.
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