INFERNAL PRINCIPLE IN F.M. DOSTOEVSKY’S STORY BOBOK

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of Feodor M. Dostoevsky’s short story Bobok from the point of view of the embodiment and action of the infernal principle in it. It is shown that the infernal principle plays a structure-forming role in the artistic reality of Bobok , being, in fact, its ontological basis. The article esablishes the relashions between Bobok and Plato’s dialogue Symposium . It is discussed also the phenomenon of infernality in Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazovs and its traces in Michail A. Bulgakov’s novel Master and Margarita .