The Instant of “Freedom” for a “Condemned to Death”: Spatial Organization Poetics of Rodion Raskolnikov’s First Dream
The article is devoted to the study of the artistic space features of the Rodion Raskolnikov’s first dream. Based on the previous works of some researchers (M. M. Bakhtin, G. K. Schennikov, D. A. Nechayenko, T. A. Kasatkina, I. A. Rudenko), the author of the article attempts a detailed analysis of the chronotopic details of the dream, makes comparative parallels between Raskolnikov’s internal state and the external events that occur. In conclusion, it is suggested that Raskolnikov’s dream (as all his dreams in series) refers to a special level of organization of the artistic space - the pneumatosphere (according to N. L. Leiderman).