Diary As Fiction: Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Turgenev's Diary of a Superfluous Man

by Natale, Jessica M.

• ISBN13: 9781581121117
• ISBN10: 1581121113
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

There is a genre of literature in which the work is purposely written within the diary format; this type of writings known as diary fiction. Diary novels traditionally reflect what the authors think real diaries are or are written as a parody of the diary as a negative model. The authors of diary novels choose the diary form because its artistic quality expresses a greater sense of immediacy to the reader than other forms of literature. The diary novel emphasizes the time of writing rather than the time that it is written about, so the diarist usually writes about events of the immediate past - events that occur between one entry and the next - or records his momentary ideas, reflections, or emotions.

Table of Contents

Contents	p. 3
Foreword	p. 4
Acknowledgments	p. 6
Introduction	p. 7
History of the Diary Novel	p. 7
The Problem of Defining A Diary Novel	p. 7
Diary Novel	p. 14
Form	p. 14
Diary Novel Narrator	p. 23
Diary Novel - Literary Techniques	p. 29
Mirror Method	p. 29
Confession	p. 32
Narrator/Reader Relationship	p. 35
"Diary of A Superfluous Man"	p. 39
Notes From Underground	p. 42
Conclusion	p. 45
Bibliography	p. 47
Addendum	p. 48
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