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Name: The Sign of Dostoevsky in the Story «The Bride» by A. P. Chekhov

Authors: Yakimova Lyudmila P.

Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

In the section The Plot and the Methods of Its Description

Abstract: The story «The Bride» by Chekhov is considered in the aspect of the author’s reexamination of the plot model which is crucial for the Russian literature of the 19th century and known as «a Russian man at rendezvous». The trace of the author’s dialogue with F. M. Dostoyevsky’s novel «The Demons» is reviewed.

Keywords: chekhov, story «the bride», the motif of departure, personage couple: the bride – «f propagandist», intertextual call-over, dostoyevsky, «demons»

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