ARTISTIC REFLECTIONS OF KUMANIN’S HERITAGE CASE IN THE NOVEL THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV BY F. M. DOSTOEVSKY

Abstract

The article considers the issue of artistic reflections of the Kumanin’s heritage case in the novel The Brothers Karamazov . In the novel the author fully manifested the algorithm of the artistic ‘refusion’ of the facts from his own lifetime and the family history. That resulted in the ‘text of life’ transforming into the literary text. The heritage dispute had become the plot stem of the novel. It also got complicated with a moral&psychological and philosophical&religious conflicts. The dispute threw the shadow over the narrative structure of the novel. The same event is interpreted in the book from different subjective viewpoints that define moral (self)estimations of the heroes. Rising above different interpretations of justice, legal and moral rights in relation to the heritage case, the artist of Dostoevsky gives the readership a potential opportunity to assess them from the Christianity prospective.