The return from «Dead house»: to the poetics of the documentary novel of Andre Gide

This article analyses the poetics of the novel of Andre Gide “The return from USSR” in the context of the poetics of Dostoievsky’s novel ”Memoirs from the Dead House”. The object of the studies of A. Gide’s novel is a verification of the hypothesys of his belonging to the genre of the documentary novel. The author makes the conclusion about the polyphonical structure of poetics in the novel “The Return from USSR”, what permits to concern this novel to the genre of documentary novel.