«A Novel in Nine Letters» by F. M. Dostoevsky is built on the destruction of the reader's expectations from the epistolary form, since Dostoevsky uses it to write a comic work. To achieve a comic effect, the writer often uses to parallelism at different levels of the text, as well as to references to literature relevant to readers of the XIX century. At the end of the work, the principle of parallelism is intentionally violated by the author, which does not meet the reader's expectations.