详细
The article shows that Dostoevsky’s tale “he Double” was created in an atmosphere of gradual maturation of Dostoevsky’s break with Belinsky’s circle. In different chapters of this tale, various moments in the development of his attitude towards Dostoevsky were refracted – from delight and admiration to skepticism and rejection. The final break between Dostoevsky and Belinsky’s circle, which followed after the appearance of “Belinsky’s Message do Dostoevsky”, was preceded by a long development of accumulated contradictions, which, obviously, falls on November – December 1845. Thus, it took place just at the time when Dostoevsky was writing the last chapters of his story, in which Golyadkin Jr. shows all his cunning towards Golyadkin Sr. At the same time, there are features in Golyadkin Jr. that, apparently, contain allusions to some features of the personality of the young Turgenev, known to us from the reviews of memoirists. “The Double” itself is not a monument to a mental crisis or a manifesto of a psychopathological state, but an attempt by the writer to figure out how and why all this happened to him, and thereby overcome that happened through literary creativity.