Artistic redundancy of Fyodor Dostoevsky's early works

The author's goal is to study such a phenomenon as artistic redundancy. A study of Dostoevsky's works shows that some images and plots were originally conceived by the writer more complex and diverse than they were included in the final text of the work. This is confirmed by the drafts and notebooks of the writer, in which the stages of the creative process are recorded. Dostoevsky returned to unused fiction when writing subsequent stories and novels, creating variants of the intended characters and plots. Therefore, there were several tasks for the study of early works: to highlight the artistic images and plots of the works "Poor Folk", "White Nights" and "The Insulted and Humiliated", which, as a result of the potential inherent in them, Dostoevsky used to create subsequent novels; show how, as a result of "artistic redundancy", not only variants of characters or plots were created, but a typology of images was formed and the specifics of the plot construction of Dostoevsky's works were determined. Therefore, the main methods necessary for solving problems were systemic and comparative-typological. For example, the artistic redundancy of the image of Makar Devushkin leads to the creation of the main character of the story "The Double," which is a version of the image of Makar, who was left alone. The image of Mr. Bykov gives impetus to the development of a gallery of cynic heroes - Prince Valkovsky, Svidrigailov, Stavrogin, Fyodor Karamazov. Artistic redundancy allows you to trace the features of the creative process of Fyodor Dostoevsky and reveal the foundations of his artistic method and style.

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