Dostoevsky

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.

This article deals with the genealogy of the Radical Left and the Conservative Revolution ideas in Dostoevsky’s work focusing on his novel “The Demons” (1872). It shows the genesis of the radical left-wing position of the young Dostoevsky and his mature and late conversion to Conservative Revolution as a model for understanding what happens with neoliberalism in the post-Trump era.