Abstract:

The paper describes the specificity of international literary connections as a powerful tool for global studies. The main goal of the article is to reveal and describe how information can be shared between cultures and nations. The results of these investigations explain the key tendencies of Dostoevsky’s early reception in Germany, and determine the main features in F.M. Dostoevsky’s work interpretation. The article summarises the reviews of Dostoevsky’s works placed in Germany literary periodicals. In this paper cultural environment of the time is described and complete view of the factors determining Dostoevsky’s heritage reception at an early stage in Germany is considered.

Keywords: Dostoevsky, world literature, reception, globalisation, naturalism, neo-romanticism, expressionism.