"ПОВОРОТ К ДОСТОЕВСКОМУ" У ТОМАСА МАННА: "ДОКТОР ФАУСТУС" (1947)

Abstract

The article examines how the center of the «Russian space» by Thomas Mann shifts from L.N. Tolstoy towards F.M. Dostoevsky in the mid-1940s while he was working on Doctor Faustus (1947) and the preface for the American edition of selected works of Dostoevsky (1945) - in the historical context of a turning point during the Second World War. It also gives a brief overview of domestic research on intertextual relations between Doctor Faustus and some works of F.M. Dostoevsky, and notes significant parallelism between dynamics of Adrian Leverkuhn’s «falling away from God» in chapters XIV-XXV of the novel, Thomas Mann’s addressing to some Dostoevsky’s works and development of the Soviet army's counteroffensive to the West in 1944-1945 (as presented by Thomas Mann in «The story of a novel: the genesis of “Doctor Faustus”», 1949).