Drain to the Chalice. (F.M. Dostoevsky’s ideas in artistic minds of the British writers of the first half of the XX century)
This article is devoted to the reception of the ideas of F.M. Dostoevsky in the artistic minds of the three greatest English authors: O. Wilde, G. Galsworthy and D.H. Lawrence. According to the idea of Galsworthy about the different attitude to the meaning of life by the Russian and British, which was well known by the British writers themselves, and due to their contradictive attitude to Dostoevsky’s creative work, in the article it is found some intertextual connections, nuances of the reading, agonized feelings, connected with the emotional perception of the Russian writer.