Polemic notes on the literary type of the “little person”: to the question about the “band of titular advisers”

UDC 821.161.1

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.6-20.088         

Davydova Tatiana T.,

Doctor of Philology, Professor

of the Russian Language and Literary History Department 

Moscow Polytechnic University

 e-mail: kafrys@yandex.ru

The appearance of A. Pushkin and the evolution of N. Gogol, M. Lermontov, F. Dostoevsky, A. Chekhov, M. Zoshchenko, E. Zamyatin of the type of “little man” is considered, its originality in the work of each of the writers is revealed. The genetic connections of Gogol’s “St. Petersburg” stories with Hoffmann’s prose are revealed, the image of Bashmachkin is interpreted in the context of L. Shestov’s ideas, and some interpretations of the “little man” type in modern Russian literary criticism are evaluated.

Keywords: type, “little man”, “small man”, Russian classical prose, German romanticism, interpretation.

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