MICROPLOTS IN THE “A WRITER’S DIARY’ BY FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY AS A MEANS OF IDEA’S ARGUMENTATION

Abstract

The article analyses microplots in the “Diary of a Writer” by F.M. Dostoevsky, taken from the magazine’s editions of different years. The “Diary of a Writer” is a kind of laboratory of Dostoevsky’s creativity, analyzing the microplots of the “Diary”, the researcher analyzes the mechanism of the author’s creative process. Dostoevsky believed that the idea can be easily conveyed to the reader only through a visual image, a clear example. This is precisely the main function that the microplot performs in the Writer’s Diary. It is an artistic argument that the writer needs to prove the main ideas expressed in the Diary. This study proves that microplots are an integral part of the writer’s creative process: starting work on the Writer’s Diary, the author set himself the task of studying reality in as much detail as possible and, having accumulated impressions, write a great novel. These impressions, as a rule, become the basis for microplots. Therefore, the analysis of microplots, among other things, reflects the process of searching for themes and images for Dostoevsky’s latest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. It is concluded that micro-plots, on the one hand, are necessary for the writer for the artistic argumentation of the ideas of the “Diary”, and on the other hand, for identifying new types and images of characters in the future novel.