The narrative structure of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's «A writer's diary»: identifying the problem

The article studies the discourse structure in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's «A Writer's Diary». «On an Exhibition» (1873) viewed as a «totally publicist» piece is used to show the definitely ambivalent nature of the narrating subject (Publicist/Narrator) and his discourse. Along with the Publicist's speculations based on induction there is another voice, that of the Narrator, transforming the reality seen by the Publicist into aesthetic objects, the latter becoming meaningful only within a new whole, that is Dostoyevsky's «Writer's Diary».