F.M. Dostoevsky’s Story “The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree”: the Image Structure and the Aesthetics of Action

Most of all Dostoevsky’s texts, “The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree” poses questions about the structure of image in the author’s works, and about the intentional focus of the literary text, aiming to offer the reader another view of the reality surrounding him, to “wash” his/her eyes, c...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:9485ccf0eee44c2d9958cd22e4446d132021-11-24T09:49:04ZF.M. Dostoevsky’s Story “The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree”: the Image Structure and the Aesthetics of Action10.22455/2619-0311-2019-1-16-402619-03112712-8512https://doaj.org/article/9485ccf0eee44c2d9958cd22e4446d132019-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dostmirkult.ru/images/DOST_2019-1-int-1-18-42.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2619-0311https://doaj.org/toc/2712-8512Most of all Dostoevsky’s texts, “The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree” poses questions about the structure of image in the author’s works, and about the intentional focus of the literary text, aiming to offer the reader another view of the reality surrounding him, to “wash” his/her eyes, covered by the dirt flowing from “the proximate and the visible in its flowing immediacy” and closed by the crust of humdrum. Solving the question of the structure of the image allows us to answer the question of how deepness is reached in Dostoevsky’s texts. The two-fold image in Dostoevsky’s works is described, as well as its analogues in the Christian culture, the qualities and characteristics of such an image, the way it is shaped through the reproduction of iconic images or through allusions to the Gospels, and its essential role in creating a space for the reader’s personal action. The article also concerns the differences occurring between this kind of image and another one – the Symbolists’ image – whose aim was to awake memories, to recognize and to comprehend the permanent patterns of human actions and relations, but not to change these patterns. The tale displays a double layer concerning not only human, but also space images, the presence of the already transfigured space in the depth of mundanity, whose appearance is prevented by human indolence, indifference, and the fact of being focused on the self.Tatyana A. KasatkinaRussian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literaturearticledostoevsky“the beggar boy at christ's christmas tree”image structureimage deepnessaesthetics of actionintention of the literary workiconbiblical precedent textSlavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665ENRUДостоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, Iss 1, Pp 16-40 (2019)
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topic dostoevsky
“the beggar boy at christ's christmas tree”
image structure
image deepness
aesthetics of action
intention of the literary work
icon
biblical precedent text
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
spellingShingle dostoevsky
“the beggar boy at christ's christmas tree”
image structure
image deepness
aesthetics of action
intention of the literary work
icon
biblical precedent text
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
Tatyana A. Kasatkina
F.M. Dostoevsky’s Story “The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree”: the Image Structure and the Aesthetics of Action
description Most of all Dostoevsky’s texts, “The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree” poses questions about the structure of image in the author’s works, and about the intentional focus of the literary text, aiming to offer the reader another view of the reality surrounding him, to “wash” his/her eyes, covered by the dirt flowing from “the proximate and the visible in its flowing immediacy” and closed by the crust of humdrum. Solving the question of the structure of the image allows us to answer the question of how deepness is reached in Dostoevsky’s texts. The two-fold image in Dostoevsky’s works is described, as well as its analogues in the Christian culture, the qualities and characteristics of such an image, the way it is shaped through the reproduction of iconic images or through allusions to the Gospels, and its essential role in creating a space for the reader’s personal action. The article also concerns the differences occurring between this kind of image and another one – the Symbolists’ image – whose aim was to awake memories, to recognize and to comprehend the permanent patterns of human actions and relations, but not to change these patterns. The tale displays a double layer concerning not only human, but also space images, the presence of the already transfigured space in the depth of mundanity, whose appearance is prevented by human indolence, indifference, and the fact of being focused on the self.
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title F.M. Dostoevsky’s Story “The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree”: the Image Structure and the Aesthetics of Action
title_short F.M. Dostoevsky’s Story “The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree”: the Image Structure and the Aesthetics of Action
title_full F.M. Dostoevsky’s Story “The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree”: the Image Structure and the Aesthetics of Action
title_fullStr F.M. Dostoevsky’s Story “The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree”: the Image Structure and the Aesthetics of Action
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