The Concept of Poverty-Wealth as a Motivational Constant in Russian Literature

Abstract

In the wide chronological section and through poetic-semantic analysis of the mane works of the Russian literature (for example, Gogol novel “Overcoat”, “Poor people” of F. M. Dostoevsky, Chehov’s novel “Three years” and Vs. Ivanov’s story “Fertility”) opens the inevitability of social historical motivation of richness-poverty, as well as it’s motif domination in the literature in the sense of the conflict of socially determined and existentially deterministic view of human nature. Primary focus is the wealth of intertextual field of Russian literature, which is caused by motive roll call, creative dialog and writers’ polemics of different generation, which appears as a factor cementing the humanistic orientation of the Russian literature.