Title: CRYPTOGRAPHIC POETICS OF F. M. DOSTOEVSKY’S SHORT STORY THE ETERNAL HUSBAND (ROUGH SKETCHES AND BIOGRAPHICAL SUBTEXT)
Abstract: The article suggests that F. M. Dostoevsky’s short story The Eternal Husband is a reinterpretation of A. I. Herzen’s novel Who Is to Blame? (1847). A note preserved in the drafts, that seems to refer to the future character of Trusotsky, serves as a key to unraveling the biographical subtext of the work. It seems that, apart from Dostoevsky’s own romantic experiences with M. D. Isaeva and A. P. Suslova, the story was based on his attitudes to the family drama of Herzen and Ogarev.