NOVEL "DEMONS" F.M. DOSTOYEVSKY IN THE ASPECT OF THE THEORY OF SIMULACRS by J. BAUDRILLARD
The article is an analysis of the masquerade culture in F. M. Dostoevsky's novel "Demons" from the point of view of the functioning of the work of simulative concepts and acts in the artistic world. The concept of simulacra by Jean Baudrillard makes it possible to clarify the nature of the relationship of the characters to the world around them and to each other. The author proves the substitution of the real world of the novel for the hyperreal one and highlights the main simulative concepts that are key to the existence of the characters of "Demons": fashion, nobility of the family, connections, rank, place of residence, norms of secular etiquette. In his work, the author uses motivating and meaningful methods of text analysis, which make it possible to identify the semantic dominants of the text and correlate them with the general meaning of the novel.