Onomastics and Paradox: Dostoevsky and the Collapse of the Ontological Integrity of Character. Onomastics plays a key role in Dostoevsky’s poetics: the names of most of his characters are essential to their portraits, even though these names rarely signify unambiguously. Moreover, a number of his characters are nameless and a semantic tension arises from this absence: the impossibility of “branding” the hero with a name prevents us from identifying his or her features through verbal onomastic symbolism. The portrait of such characters necessarily remains somewhat murky. It is no coincidence that the “nameless heroes” are the most paradoxical and enigmatic characters of Dostoevsky’s creative world. By denying them names, Dostoevsky seeks to destroy the inner integrity of these heroes, their identity, in order that a living, independent, and contradictory personality emerges in them.
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Chapter Title
Ономастика и Парадокс: Достоевский и крушение онтологической целостности персонажа
Authors
Stefano Aloe
Language
Russian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0122-3.07
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Publication Year
2023
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Book Title
Ф.М. Достоевский: Юмор, парадоксальность, демонтаж
Editors
Dar'ja Farafonova, Laura Salmon, Stefano Aloe
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Number of Pages
222
Publication Year
2023
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0122-3
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979-12-215-0121-6
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979-12-215-0122-3
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979-12-215-0123-0
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
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2612-7679