About the author:
Anastasia V. Golubtsova, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1286-7707
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Abstract:
The article studies theatrical interpretations of Notes from Underground in Italy. It analyzes performances inspired by Dostoevsky’s novel and draws a conclusion that the popularity of the novel has been constantly rising in the last decades. However, as the novel becomes more popular, its interpretations get simpler and narrower: the prevailing “psychoanalytical” approach significantly distorts the original text, limiting it to an analysis of an individual neurosis and thus causing it to lose its universal meaning.