The diaries and "The memoirs" by A. M. Dostoyevsky as the artistic and literary unity

Documentary texts describe not only the facts, but also leave room for their art interpretation. It is the main stylistic feature of the so-called “real”, non-fiction literature. Diaries and memoirs can be called one of the popular genres of documentary. Despite the artistic diversity of the memoirs, diaries are also stylistically intertextual. They contain examples of different genre inclusions: letters, chronicles, biographical portraits, fragments of reminiscences, writing experiences, some citations from another literary texts and so on. The “Memoirs” and the diaries by A. M. Dostoyevsky are either original literary texts or they artisticly correspond with each other. On the one side, they сorrelate chronologically. The diaries have many textual references that briefly inform about the author’s writing work on the “Memoirs”. On the other side, both literary sources broaden the narrative characteristics of the documentary genre and reflect the inner art world of A. M. Dostoevsky - his love to family traditions and values. “Family”, “home” are the key images of the “Memoirs” and the diaries. In the case of the “Memoirs” the art chronotope develops from the public life towards the author’s family circle. In another way the diaries bring together family everyday observations with the social life of the epoch.