"RUSSIAN MONK" BY DOSTOEVSKY AS A METALITERARY PHENOMENON: FICTION OR THEOLOGY?
The article deals with the controversy of the representatives of the pre-revolutionary Orthodox clergy and church intellectuals concerning those images in Dostoyevsky''s novel «The Brothers Karamazov», which are the ideal of art adaptation of the Orthodox sanctity, or more precisely, the monasticism. The evaluation of the characters is represented by two different factors: the dogmatic purity of the Orthodox Faith expressed through the characters of the novel, and their art truth. The results of the analysis justify the introduction of «art theology» to the terminological apparatus as a literary concept, the use of which is postulated by the necessity of an adequate perception of the phenomenon of holiness in a literary text.