Voltaire’s Comedy The Prodigal Son in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent

Through the example of Voltaire’s comedy The Prodigal Son, the article shows how Dostoevsky actualizes the worldview and life strategies behind the imagery of other authors, when using their texts in his novel The Adolescent. Nonetheless, Dostoevsky, not only reproposes several different perspective...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:de175807b0e8456c8fc62bddc62146e52021-12-02T18:25:22ZVoltaire’s Comedy The Prodigal Son in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent10.22455/2619-0311-2021-3-16-382619-03112712-8512https://doaj.org/article/de175807b0e8456c8fc62bddc62146e52021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dostmirkult.ru/images/2021-3/01_Magaril-Ilyaeva_16-38.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2619-0311https://doaj.org/toc/2712-8512Through the example of Voltaire’s comedy The Prodigal Son, the article shows how Dostoevsky actualizes the worldview and life strategies behind the imagery of other authors, when using their texts in his novel The Adolescent. Nonetheless, Dostoevsky, not only reproposes several different perspectives, but also engages in a dialogue with them and transforms them according to his aim as. Dostoevsky thoroughly weaves the slightly mentioned comedy by the French philosopher into the fabric of the text, and the writer works with it in several mutually dependent directions at once. The quote (taken from the preface, not from the play) stresses the matters that are raised in the preface and the preface itself as a significant element of the composition. The French sentence borrowed by Versilov relates his image with Voltaire’s, as it was perceived by Dostoevsky. In the novel Dostoevsky reflects on the motif of the prodigal son as it is presented in the Bible and also in its transformed version by Voltaire.Tatiana G. Magaril-Il’iaevaRussian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literaturearticledostoevskythe adolescentvoltaire’s comedy the prodigal sonthe concept of laughterlaugh and mirthparable of the prodigal sonSlavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665ENRUДостоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, Iss 3, Pp 16-38 (2021)
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topic dostoevsky
the adolescent
voltaire’s comedy the prodigal son
the concept of laughter
laugh and mirth
parable of the prodigal son
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
spellingShingle dostoevsky
the adolescent
voltaire’s comedy the prodigal son
the concept of laughter
laugh and mirth
parable of the prodigal son
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
Tatiana G. Magaril-Il’iaeva
Voltaire’s Comedy The Prodigal Son in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent
description Through the example of Voltaire’s comedy The Prodigal Son, the article shows how Dostoevsky actualizes the worldview and life strategies behind the imagery of other authors, when using their texts in his novel The Adolescent. Nonetheless, Dostoevsky, not only reproposes several different perspectives, but also engages in a dialogue with them and transforms them according to his aim as. Dostoevsky thoroughly weaves the slightly mentioned comedy by the French philosopher into the fabric of the text, and the writer works with it in several mutually dependent directions at once. The quote (taken from the preface, not from the play) stresses the matters that are raised in the preface and the preface itself as a significant element of the composition. The French sentence borrowed by Versilov relates his image with Voltaire’s, as it was perceived by Dostoevsky. In the novel Dostoevsky reflects on the motif of the prodigal son as it is presented in the Bible and also in its transformed version by Voltaire.
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author Tatiana G. Magaril-Il’iaeva
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title Voltaire’s Comedy The Prodigal Son in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent
title_short Voltaire’s Comedy The Prodigal Son in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent
title_full Voltaire’s Comedy The Prodigal Son in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent
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title_full_unstemmed Voltaire’s Comedy The Prodigal Son in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent
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publisher Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
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