“Embroidery on Someone Else’s Canvas”: Dostoevsky as Co-Author of the “Answer to a Protest”

The article is dedicated to the question on the authorship of the “Answer to a Protest” which is adjacent to the cycle of essays by V.P. Meshchersky “Letters of a Freethinker” in the weekly journal “Grazhdanin” (“The Citizen”). The attributions of the “Answer to a Protest” undertaken by V.A. Viktoro...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:3cfb0e84e13c4af0b7ddbbf6180a37402021-12-02T19:29:15Z“Embroidery on Someone Else’s Canvas”: Dostoevsky as Co-Author of the “Answer to a Protest”10.22455/2619-0311-2021-2-151-1712619-03112712-8512https://doaj.org/article/3cfb0e84e13c4af0b7ddbbf6180a37402021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dostmirkult.ru/images/2021-2/07_Otlivanchik_151-171.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2619-0311https://doaj.org/toc/2712-8512The article is dedicated to the question on the authorship of the “Answer to a Protest” which is adjacent to the cycle of essays by V.P. Meshchersky “Letters of a Freethinker” in the weekly journal “Grazhdanin” (“The Citizen”). The attributions of the “Answer to a Protest” undertaken by V.A. Viktorovich (Dostoevsky’s authorship hypothesis) and B.V. Fedorenko (Meshchersky’s authorship hypothesis) are compared and critically examined. The documentary sources for the attribution of the article are analyzed: the fee list of the journal “Grazhdanin”, Meshchersky’s letter to Dostoevsky dated August 19, 1873, Dostoevsky’s testimony in the published note to the “Answer to a Protest”, etc. In the text of the “Answer to a Protest” lexical units and syntactic constructions are typical for both Meshchersky’s and Dostoevsky’s publications, and equally inherent in the texts of both possible authors. The analysis of the content and style of the article (with the involvement of documentary sources) allows us to consider it as the result of a co-authorship between Dostoevsky and Meshchersky, arising from edits and additions made by the editor of the journal “Grazhdanin” on the original author’s manuscript.Alexander V. OtlivanchikRussian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literaturearticle“grazhdanin” (“the citizen”)v.p. meshchersky“answer to a protest”editingco-authorshipattributionfee liststylistic analysisSlavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665ENRUДостоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, Iss 2, Pp 151-171 (2021)
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topic “grazhdanin” (“the citizen”)
v.p. meshchersky
“answer to a protest”
editing
co-authorship
attribution
fee list
stylistic analysis
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
spellingShingle “grazhdanin” (“the citizen”)
v.p. meshchersky
“answer to a protest”
editing
co-authorship
attribution
fee list
stylistic analysis
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
Alexander V. Otlivanchik
“Embroidery on Someone Else’s Canvas”: Dostoevsky as Co-Author of the “Answer to a Protest”
description The article is dedicated to the question on the authorship of the “Answer to a Protest” which is adjacent to the cycle of essays by V.P. Meshchersky “Letters of a Freethinker” in the weekly journal “Grazhdanin” (“The Citizen”). The attributions of the “Answer to a Protest” undertaken by V.A. Viktorovich (Dostoevsky’s authorship hypothesis) and B.V. Fedorenko (Meshchersky’s authorship hypothesis) are compared and critically examined. The documentary sources for the attribution of the article are analyzed: the fee list of the journal “Grazhdanin”, Meshchersky’s letter to Dostoevsky dated August 19, 1873, Dostoevsky’s testimony in the published note to the “Answer to a Protest”, etc. In the text of the “Answer to a Protest” lexical units and syntactic constructions are typical for both Meshchersky’s and Dostoevsky’s publications, and equally inherent in the texts of both possible authors. The analysis of the content and style of the article (with the involvement of documentary sources) allows us to consider it as the result of a co-authorship between Dostoevsky and Meshchersky, arising from edits and additions made by the editor of the journal “Grazhdanin” on the original author’s manuscript.
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title “Embroidery on Someone Else’s Canvas”: Dostoevsky as Co-Author of the “Answer to a Protest”
title_short “Embroidery on Someone Else’s Canvas”: Dostoevsky as Co-Author of the “Answer to a Protest”
title_full “Embroidery on Someone Else’s Canvas”: Dostoevsky as Co-Author of the “Answer to a Protest”
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