Reception of Dostoevsky in the drama "Dispute about Dostoevsky" by F.Gorenstein

This article deals with the drama "Dispute about Dostoevsky", one of key works by F.Gorenstein. The peculiarities of perception of the Gorenstein's characters by the leading Dostoyevsky's types are examined here. Explicit and implicit analogies have been revealed between Gorenstein's characters and Dostoevsky's heroes. The conclusion is that the reception of Dostoevsky in the play by Gorenstein is mediated largely both by research and literature interpretations and his own representations about literary types, which were discovered by Dostoyevsky.