THE DIARIES AND THE MEMOIRS BY A. M. DOSTOEVSKY AS THE ARTISTIC AND LITERARY UNITY

Documentary texts describe not only the facts, but also favour their creative interpretation. It is the main stylistic feature of the so-called “documental”, non-fiction literature. Diaries and memoirs can be called one of the popular genres of non-fictional literature. Despite the artistic diversity of the memoirs, diaries are also stylistically intertextual. They contain examples of different genres: letters, chronicles, biographical portraits, fragments of recollections, writing experiences, some quotations from other literary texts and soon. The “Memoirs” and the diaries of Andrew Dostoevsky are original literary texts and they correspond to each other. Firstly, they correlate with one another chronologically. The diaries contain lots of textual references that imply the author’s work on the “Memoirs”. Secondly, both literary sources expand the narrative characteristics of the documentary genre and reveal A. M. Dostoevsky’s love to family traditions and values. “Family”, “home” are the key images both of the “Memoirs” and of the diaries. In the “Memoirs” the artistic chronotope develops from the public life towards the author’s private life (life as the change of apartments). In another way the diaries bring together family’s everyday narrations with the social life of the epoch.