DIALOGIC CONVERGENCE OF BIBLICAL AND LITERARY FABULAS IN “THE ADOLESCENT” BY F. M. DOSTOEVSKY

The article discusses the issue of dialogic convergence of biblical and literary fabulas in The Adolescent by Fedor Dostoevsky. We also examine the issue of the author's creative dialogue with the previous traditions, and the synthesis of biblical and literary sources in the novel's fabula. A special emphasis is made on the author's attention to biblical fabula tradition and the role of biblical subtext in the plot of the novel. We have outlined a set of images and motifs which link The Adolescent with its source in the Old Testament and provide a comparative analysis of the fabulas in Pushkin's The Station Master and Dostoevsky's Humiliated and Insulted and The Adolescent within the general context of the Old Testament tradition. The article examines the transformations of classical fabulas, their convergence and resurgence in The Adolescent thanks to the open, convergence-oriented type of artistic consciousness that we find in Dostoevsky.