CREATIVE AND PREUDOCREATIVE ASPECTS OF THE PHENOMENA “DAYDREAM” AND “DAYDREAMING” IN F. M. DOSTOYEVSKIY`S NOVELLA “WHITE NIGHTS” |
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| 2023 |
| DOSTOEVSKOVEDENIE |
| scientific article | 82 | ||
| 7-16 | Достоевский, «Белые ночи», мечта, мечтание, творчество, «лжетворчество», Dostoyevskiy, “White Nights”, daydream, daydreaming, creation, “pseudocreation” |
| The paper analyses the phemomena of the daydream and the daydreaming in F. M. Dostoyevskiy's novella “White Nights”. The author investigates the connection between these phenomena and the phenomenon of creation. It is argued that in this novella the relation between the designated phenomena is controversial. According to the paper's author, the last fact is determined by the specifics of young Dostoyevskiy's aesthetic and philosophical conception. According to scientists, in the 1830-1840s the beginning writer laid great emphasis not only on the issue of the true creation and the true artist, but also on the issue of the “pseudocreation” and the “pseudoartist”. The reflections about these issues continued naturally in F.M. Dostoyevskiy's art works including “White Nights”. The paper advances an idea that on the one hand in this novella the phenomena “daydream” and “daydreaming” correlate with creation as the process of creating fictional worlds involves main character's poetic abilities directly, and his daydreams become similar to works of art in many ways. On the other hand, the daydream and the daydreaming in “White Nights” unfold the features of creativity's opposite (“pseudocreation”) because it is possible to discern in the daydreaming a convenient substitute for the true creation (a hard and self-giving act itself), and that in daydreams a kind of false works of art can be seen. Furthermore, the significant fact is that both phenomena may be considered a result of death of a true artistic talent which the Dreamer, from all appearances, was endowed with. |
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