Pragmatics of Confidence in the Short Novel "The Eternal Husband" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

This article is devoted to the analysis of the pragmatics at work in the text of the short novel “The Eternal Husband” (1870) by Fyodor Dostoevsky. In the novel the plot collisions comprise dialogues that both predetermine and reveal the characters' self-disclosure while confiding. The article analyzes the verbal manifestations and communicative contexts of self-disclosure, particularly those oriented to the description of events, feelings and emotions, as well as the negative and harmonic types of direct and indirect self-disclosure in the text.