Fyodor Dostoevsky
Works, such as the novels
Crime and Punishment
(1866),
The Idiot
(1869), and
The Brothers Karamazov
(1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight. Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included
Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works
(1929), Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his
Demons
(1872). Many literary critics rate him of the greatest of world literature and consider multiple highly influential masterpieces. They consider his
Notes from Underground
of the first existentialist literature. He also well acts as a philosopher and theologian. (Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) (see also Fiodor Dostoïevski)
The Adolescent (Vintage Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others. This new English version by the most acclaimed of Dostoevsky’s translators is a masterpiece of pathos and high comedy.
The Eternal Husband
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings.
This remarkably edgy and suspenseful tale shows that, despite being better known for his voluminous and sprawling novels, Fyodor Dostoevsky was a master of the more tightly-focused form of the novella.
The Eternal Husband may, in fact, constitute his most classically-shaped composition, with his most devilish plot: a man answers a late-night knock on the door to find himself in a tense and puzzling confrontation with the husband of a former lover—but it isn’t clear if the husband knows about the affair. What follows is one of the most beautiful and piercing considerations ever written about the dualities of love: a dazzling psychological duel between the two men over knowledge they may or may not share, bringing them both to a shattering conclusion.
The Art of The Novella Series
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature’s greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's streets while musing upon how ridiculous his life is, as well as its distinct lack of meaning or purpose. This train of thought leads him to the idea of suicide, which he resolves to commit using a previously-acquired gun. However, a chance encounter with a distressed little girl in the street derails his drastic plans.
The Crocodile
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Usually interpreted as a diatribe against the Chernyshevsky generation, it is a work that is often referred to, but rarely read. Cioran's translation is not only readable, but is evocative of the wit and satire of the original; it is both accurate and fluid.
The Grand Inquisitor
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Grand Inquisitor is a section from The Brothers Karamazov, which is a literary work by Russian author/philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky. The central character in this work is a Grand Inquisitor who arrests Jesus. A Grand Inquisitor, or Inquisitor Generalis in German is the individual who leads an Inquisition, just like Spanish Dominican Tomas de Torquemada who was the official in charge of the Spanish Inquisition.
Poor Folk
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Poor Folk (Russian: Бедные люди, Bednye lyudi), sometimes translated as Poor People,[note] is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoevsky was in financial difficulty because of his extravagant lifestyle and his developing gambling addiction; although he had produced some translations of foreign novels, they had little success, and he decided to write a novel of his own to try to raise funds.
Inspired by the works of Gogol, Pushkin, and Karamzin, as well as English and French authors, Poor Folk is written in the form of letters between the two main characters, Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova, who are poor third cousins twice removed. The novel showcases the life of poor people, their relationship with rich people, and poverty in general, all common themes of literary naturalism. A deep but odd friendship develops between them until Dobroselova loses her interest in literature, and later in communicating with Devushkin after a rich widower Mr. Bykov proposes to her. Devushkin, a prototype of the clerk found in many works of naturalistic literature at that time, retains his sentimental characteristics; Dobroselova abandons art, while Devushkin cannot live without literature.
Contemporary critics lauded Poor Folk for its humanitarian themes. While Vissarion Belinsky dubbed the novel Russia's first "social novel" and Alexander Herzen called it a major socialist work, other critics detected parody and satire. The novel uses a complicated polyphony of voices from different perspectives and narrators. Initially offered by Dostoyevsky to the liberal-leaning magazine Fatherland Notes, the novel was published in the almanac, St. Petersburg Collection, on January 15, 1846. It became a huge success nationwide. Parts of it were translated into German by Wilhelm Wolfsohn and published in an 1846/1847 magazine. The first English translation was provided by Lena Milman in 1894, with an introduction by George Moore, cover art design by Aubrey Beardsley, and publication by London's Mathews and Lane.
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original story.
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512)
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Netochka Nezvanova
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Netochka Nezvanova - a 'Nameless Nobody' - tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. The young girl is strangely drawn to this drunken ruin of a man, who exploits her and drives the family to poverty. But when she is rescued by an aristocratic family, the abuse against Netochka's delicate psyche continues in a more subtle way, condemning her to remain an outsider - a solitary spectator of a glittering society. Conceived as part of a novel on a grand scale, Netochka Nezvanova remained incomplete after Dostoyevsky was exiled to Siberia for 'revolutionary activities' in 1849. With its depiction of the suffering, loneliness, madness and sin that affect both rich and poor in St Petersburg, it contains the great themes that were to dominate his later novels.
The Double and The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler.The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare–foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre–in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his friends and colleagues. The Gambler is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man's exhilarating and destructive addiction to gambling, a compulsion that Dostoevsky–who once gambled away his young wife's wedding ring–knew intimately from his own experience. In chronicling the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character.
The Landlady
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Landlady is a novella by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, written in 1847. Set in Saint Petersburg, it tells of an abstracted young man, Vasily Mikhailovich Ordynov, and his obsessive love for Katerina, the wife of a dismal husband whom Ordynkov perceives as a malignant fortune-teller or mystic. The story has echoes of Russian folklore and may contain autobiographical references. In its time The Landlady had a mixed reception, more recently being seen as perhaps unique in Dostoyevsky's oeuvre. The first part of the novella was published in October 1847 in Notes of the Fatherland, the second part in November that year.
Uncle's Dream
Fyodor Dostoevsky
An entertaining parody of small-town manners and morals, this comic novella is a revelation
When the aging Russian Prince, Prince K., arrives in the town of Mordasov, Marya Alexandrovna Moskaleva, a doyenne of local society life, takes him under her protection, with the aim of engineering his marriage with her 23 year old daughter Zina. Yet with many rivals for the hands of both parties, events are not guaranteed to run smoothly. The gossiping and rumor of the country village are deftly captured in Dostoevsky's mock-heroic tone. A rare foray into comedy by the giant of Russian literature, this tale nonetheless still possesses all the hallmarks of Dostoevsky's psychological and philosophical writing.
The Village of Stepanchikovo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoyevsky said he wrote the Village of Stepanchikovo (1859) for the sheer pleasure of prolonging the adventures of my new hero and enjoying a good laugh at him. This hero is not unlike myself...
Dostoyevsky's narrator has been summoned to his uncle Colonel Rostanev's remote country estate in the hope that he will act as decoy and rescue Rostanev's former ward, Nastenka Yezhevikin, from the tyranny of Opiskin, a despot and charlatan who has the whole household under his thumb. Forty-eight hours of explosive comic drama unfold, culminating in a violent confrontation between Opiskin and the ineffectual Rostanev.
Dostoyevsky conveys a delight in life's absurdities to rival that of Gogol, yet at the same time in Opiskin, a comic monster of Russian literature, he creates an unflattering portrait of his mentor. Here we recognize the genesis of the characters and the revelatory dramatic scenes of and The Karamazov Brothers.
The cover shows a detail from Spring by Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon reproduced by courtesy of the David King Collection.
The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.
As with a number of the author's other works, this profoundly influential novel brilliantly explores his characters' thoughts while probing the depths of the human soul. Describing in relentless detail the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, Dostoyevsky's character never loses faith in human qualities and the goodness of man.
A haunting and remarkable work filled with wonder and resignation, The House of the Dead ranks among the Russian novelist's greatest masterpieces. Of this powerful autobiographical novel, Tolstoy wrote, "I know no better book in all modern literature."
The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky
While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, Dostoyevsky also wrote much superb short fiction. The Double is one of the finest of his shorter works. It appeared in 1846 (his second published work) and is by far the most significant of his early stories, not least for its successful, straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme.In The Double, the protagonist, Golyadkin senior, is persecuted by his double, Golyadkin junior, who resembles him closely in almost every detail. The latter abuses the former with mounting scorn and brutality as the tale proceeds toward its frightening denouement. Characteristic Dostoyevskyan themes of helplessness, victimization, and scandal are beautifully handled here with an artistry that qualifies the story as a small masterpiece.Students of literature, admirers of Dostoyevsky, and general readers will all be delighted to have this classic work available in this inexpensive but high-quality edition.
The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky
In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss. His intense and inescapable addiction is accentuated by his affair with the General’s cruel yet seductively adept niece, Polina. In The Gambler, Dostoevsky reaches the heights of drama with this stunning psychological portrait.
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.
Белые ночи (Russian Edition)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Повесть, впервые опубликованная в 1848 году.
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels — Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes — moral, religious, political and social — that dominated Dostoyevsky's later works. Notes from the Underground, then, aside from its own compelling qualities, offers readers an ideal introduction to the creative imagination, profundity and uncanny psychological penetration of one of the most influential novelists of the nineteenth century. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction.
The Gentle Spirit
Fyodor Dostoevsky
In this compelling study of despair, based on a real-life incident, a pawnbroker mourns the loss of his wife, a quiet, gentle young girl. Why has she killed herself? Could he have prevented it? These are the questions the pawnbroker asks himself as he pieces together past events and minor incidents, changes of mood and passing glances, in his search for an answer that will relieve his torment.
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating the author's thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (150th Anniversary Edition)
The compelling works presented in this volume were written at distinct periods in Dostoyevsky's life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer. From the primitive peasant who kills without understanding that he is destroying life to the anxious antihero of Notes from Underground—who both craves and despises affection—the writer's often-tormented characters showcase his evolving outlook on our fate.
Thomas Mann described Dostoyevsky as "an author whose Christian sympathy is ordinarily devoted to human misery, sin, vice, the depths of lust and crime, rather than to nobility of body and soul" and Notes from Underground as "an awe- and terror- inspiring example of this sympathy."
Записки из подполья
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Содержание:
Надежда Михновец. «Записки из подполья»: проблема пути (статья), стр. 5-40
Фёдор Достоевский. Записки из подполья (повесть), стр. 41-182
Вл. С. Соловьёв. Три речи в память Достоевского (эссе), стр. 183-222
Надежда Михновец. Комментарии, стр. 223-250
Дневник писателя 1873-1881
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Склонность к публицистике Достоевский питал с первого периода творчества, когда в 1847 году были опубликованы его фельетоны "Петербургская летопись". После долгого вынужденного перерыва каторги и ссылки тяга писателя к освещению злободневных проблем воплощалась при издании журналов "Время" и "Эпоха". В первом январском номере еженедельного журнала "Гражданин" за 1873 год, издававшегося В. П. Мещерским, появился раздел "Дневник писателя", в котором Достоевский пояснил своё желание отразить собственное отношение к актуальным событиям словами "Буду и я говорить сам с собой … в форме этого дневника. […] Об чем говорить? Обо всем, что поразит меня или заставит задуматься", когда хаос, отсутствие убеждений и "точек упоров", цинизм преобладали в пореформенной России.
Новаторское по форме и содержанию издание одного автора состояло из серий фельетонов, очерков, полемических заметок на злобу дня, литературной критики, воспоминаний. В "Дневнике писателя" впервые публиковались ответы на письма читателей со всей России, были напечатаны небольшие художественные произведения. "Дневник писателя" пользовался большой популярностью, благодаря чему возросло влияние его автора на общественное мнение.
Memorias del subsuelo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
En el tono airado y vitriólico de los misántropos y sin orden previo alguno, el narrador del subsuelo, un revirado funcionario medio de la ciudad de San Petersburgo, da cuenta, a sus cuarenta años, de ciertos aspectos de su vida en un convulsivo desgrane de recuerdos. Su discurso lo destina a la humanidad entera y oscila entre el ensayo filosófico y la representación en secuencias de su personalidad pusilánime y enferma.
The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Short Stories)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A short Christmas story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky first published in 1876.
White Nights and Other Stories
Fyodor Dostoevsky
From the author of Crime and Punishment comes this remarkable collection of short fiction. A selection of ten compelling tales, steeped in Dostoyevsky's characteristic themes of spiritual torment and psychological struggle, evoke life in Czarist Russia. Featured stories include "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," "Bobok," "An Honest Thief," "An Unpleasant Predicament," "Another Man's Wife," "The Peasant Marey," "The Crocodile," "A Faint Heart," "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding," and the title work. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) created powerful depictions of the human condition that led to significant developments in twentieth-century thought, including psychoanalysis and existentialism. His influence resonates in the works of latter-day authors such as Proust, Faulkner, Hemingway, and Kafka. This collection of his short stories offers thought-provoking glimpses into the Russian author's moving portrayals of the conflict between flesh and spirit.
Bobok
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Bobok" (Russian: Бобок, Bobok) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that first appeared in 1873. The title can be translated from the Russian as meaning "little bean" and in the context of the story is taken to be synonymous with gibberish or nonsense.
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption.
The Meek One (Penguin Little Black Classics, #44)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.'
In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881).
Dostoyevsky's works available in Penguin Classics are Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Double, The Gambler and Other Stories, The Grand Inquisitor, Notes From The Underground, Netochka Nezvanova, The House of The Dead, The Brothers Karamazov and The Village of Stepanchikovo.
Devils
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Devils, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is a classic political satire exploring the effects of imported European ideologies such as atheism and nihilism on Christian Russia. Based on the true-life political murder of Ivan Ivanov by the revolutionary Sergey Nechayev, Dostoevsky wrote this tale of society scandals, doomed marriages and fatally misguided idealism after returning from exile in Siberia. Set in a fictional provincial town near St Petersburg, the story follows failed academic Stepan Verkhovensky as his patroness forces him to become engaged to her ward Darya. The marriage is a scheme to prevent Darya from marrying the patroness’ own son, the strong but amoral Stavrogin. Later, the youthful idealism of Stepan’s son Pyotr becomes his downfall as he assembled a terrorist cell bent on ushering in the revolution, preferably with Stavrogin at its head. What happened to Stavrogin that he became so cruel? Who is the mysterious stranger Marya, who claims to know Stavrogin from his time in St Petersburg? Will the nihilist plot be discovered in time, or will the town descend into murder and mayhem?
The Karamazov Brothers
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha--are all involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama is Dostoevsky's intense and disturbing exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, freedom of will, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism.
Bound up with this intense family drama is an exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, the question of human freedom, the collective nature of guilt, the disastrous consequences of rationalism. The novel is also richly comic: the Russian Orthodox Church, the legal system, and even the authors most cherished causes and beliefs are presented with a note of irreverence, so that orthodoxy, and radicalism, sanity and madness, love and hatred, right and wrong are no longer mutually exclusive.
Filled with eloquent voices, this new translation fully realizes the power and dramatic virtuosity of Dostoevsky's most brilliant work.
Schuld und Sühne
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ein Doppelmord in St. Petersburg, hochmütig geplant und ausgeführt von dem Studenten Raskolnikow die Tat verfolgt den ter. Unerbittlich wird er gezwungen, sich den Fragen nach Huld und ohne, nach Verbrechen und Strafe zu stellen.
The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Fyodor Dostoevsky
This novel was Dostoevsky's last and finest work, telling the story of the four Karamazov brothers each -- with his own distinct personality and desires. Driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge, they all become involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father. Exploring the secret depths of humanity's struggles and sins, Dostoevsky unfolds a grand epic which attempts to venture into mankind's darkest heart, and grasp the true meaning of existence.
Umiliati e offesi
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Le notti bianche. La cronaca di Pietroburgo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vita nätter
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Berättelsen utspelar sig under fyra nätter i Sankt Petersburg, som med sitt nordliga läge karakteriseras av sina ljusa sommarnätter - de vita nätterna i juni och juli när ljuset aldrig försvinner. Under dessa nätter stryker berättelsens huvudperson omkring på stadens gator. Han har varken vänner eller familj och hans enda kontakt med omvärlden är att betrakta livet som utspelar sig runt omkring honom under hans ensamma promenader. Istället för att leva livet betraktar han det och drömmer sig bort från verkligheten genom att göra sig föreställningar om andra människors öden och drömmar. Men en natt möter denna drömmare plötsligt sina drömmars flicka i det verkliga livet och får på så sätt möjlighet att bryta sin isolerade drömtillvaro.
Vita nätter skrevs 1848, under Dostojevskij ungdomsår, strax innan han dömdes till åtta års förvisning till Sibirien för revolutionär verksamhet. Med sin graciösa lyriska och eteriska ton är romanen unik i författarskapet. Det är en djupgående analys av den romantiske drömmaren och en av de vackraste kärlekshistorier i världslitteraturen. Dess popularitet understryks av nio filmatiseringar världen över: Ryssland, Italien (Luchino Visconti), Frankrike (Robert Bresson), Irak, Indien (flera versioner) och senast år 2009 i USA.
"Hela berättelsen svävar iväg på ett moln av musik, kärlek och romantisk fantasi. Tingen har en underordnad roll i detta verk som förmodligen är det mest lyriska av allt han skrivit." - Geir Kjetsaa
"Vita nätter skiljer sig från hans tidigare verk med sitt bedårande ljus och finstämda ton, sin atmosfär av knoppande ung känslosamhet, sina eleganta och kvicka godmodiga parodier." - Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky
Notes from a Dead House
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crimen y castigo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Le notti bianche
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Poor Folk and Other Stories
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground and The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Delitto e castigo (Italian Edition)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
La dulce
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Apuntes de la Casa Muerta
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Zločin i kazna
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jedan od najvećih romana ruske književnosti. Roman sa elementima kriminalnog, socijalnog, psihološkog i filozofskog romana.
I fratelli Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
«Sto per terminare i Karamazov», scrive Dostoevskij il 16 agosto del 1880. «Quest’ultima parte, lo vedo e lo sento da me, è così originale e diversa da come scrivono gli altri, che non mi aspetto alcuna approvazione dalla critica. Il pubblico, i lettori sono un’altra storia: mi hanno sempre sostenuto». A un secolo e mezzo dalla sua comparsa, dapprima sulla rivista «Russkij vestnik» (Il messaggero russo) e poi in un’edizione in due volumi che andò esaurita nel giro di qualche settimana, questa scrittura diversa e originale, «madre della prosa moderna e che ha portato alla sua intensità attuale » (James Joyce), questi «vortici in ebollizione, turbinose tempeste di sabbia, getti d’acqua che sibilano e ribollono e ci risucchiano » dentro pagine composte «essenzialmente e completamente della materia di cui è fatta l’anima» (Virginia Woolf), questa «vetta della letteratura di ogni tempo » (Albert Einstein), questo «libro che può insegnarti tutto quello che serve sapere sulla vita» (Kurt Vonnegut), questo autore «che sovrasta con la sua statura le nostre letterature e la nostra storia» e che «oggi ancora ci aiuta a vivere e sperare» (Albert Camus), questa lettura «nevrotica » (Vladimir Nabokov) ma umanissima del cristianesimo, non ha perso nulla della sua potenza letteraria. E ancora oggi, mentre assistiamo al parricidio più famoso delle lettere moderne e ne seguiamo l’esaltante iter giudiziario, siamo costretti a scendere con Ivan, Dmitrij e Alëša Karamazov nelle profondità più scomode dell’animo umano, a interrogarci sugli istinti peggiori dell’individuo e della società, a incidere come un patologo le cancrene della nostra coscienza, in un percorso in cui realtà e incubo non sempre hanno contorni netti, in cui la tragedia si accompagna alla farsa, e la disperazione si danna per alimentare una pur esile fiammella di speranza. I fratelli Karamazov è il testamento letterario, e non solo, di Dostoevskij, il romanzo di chi guarda al sublime da una pozza di fango, delle idee che prendono fuoco, di coloro che «non respirano mai tranquillamente né mai si riposano (…), di chi vive nella febbre, nella convulsione, nello spasimo» (Stefan Zweig).
Memorie del sottosuolo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pubblicato nel 1864, Memorie del sottosuolo è il libro che annuncia i capolavori della maturità (Delitto e castigo uscirà appena due anni dopo). Già inconfondibilmente dostoevskiana è la voce che procede allo scandaglio dell'animo umano senza risparmiarsi nulla e senza indietreggiare davanti alle verità più amare. Con i suoi tratti ampiamente autobiografici, il protagonista delle memorie è un uomo timido, senza risorse e protezioni, che la brutalità della vita sociale respinge nel sottosuolo, e a cui non resta che cercare uno sfogo provvisorio tormentando chi sta ancora più in basso di lui: Liza, misera prostituta alle prime armi, incontrata in una sera di neve bagnata.
Le Joueur
Fyodor Dostoevsky
9 أعمال دوستويفسكي الأدبية: الجريمة والعقاب 2 ـ المجلد
Fyodor Dostoevsky
8 أعمال دوستويفسكي الأدبية: الجريمة والعقاب 1 ـ المجلد
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nietoschka Nezvanova / Noches Blancas
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Noches blancas
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Noches blancas es una novela del autor ruso Fiódor Dostoievski publicada en 1848, al inicio de la carrera del autor. Como muchas de sus obras, esta novela está narrada en primera persona por un narrador, sin nombre. El protagonista es el arquetipo del joven soñador y solitario e imagina constantemente su vejez solitaria. Durante uno de sus largos y cotidianos paseos por las calles de San Petersburgo se encuentra con una joven, Nástienka. Hasta entonces, él nunca había hablado con mujeres y mucho menos se había enamorado, pero hay algo en ella que le hechiza. El relato está estructurado durante cuatro noches y una mañana.
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersburg, it is the story of a young man fighting his inner restlessness. A light and tender narrative, it delves into the torment and guilt of unrequited love. Both protagonists suffer from a deep sense of alienation that initially brings them together. A blend of romanticism and realism, the story appeals gently to the senses and feelings.
Cuentos de Fiodor Dostoievski / Stories. Fiodor Dostoievski (Penguin Clasicos) (Spanish Edition)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Los Hermanos Karamazov (Sepan Cuantos, #106)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lo mejor de Dostoyevski (Spanish Edition)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
El sueño de un hombre ridículo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Insulted and Humiliated
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Era uma vez um país em que o ardor das paixões sucumbia ao frio dos costumes. Havia naquele país uma cidade bela e lúgubre, onde os ricos se repimpavam no luxo mais ostensivo e os pobres não tinham o que comer. Viviam naquela cidade cinco jovens, dois homens e três mulheres, cujos afetos se entrelaçaram a ponto de formarem um complexo polígono amoroso, proporcionando-lhes uma efêmera felicidade mesclada com muito sofrimento.
Dublul
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Weak Heart
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Weak Heart (1848) by Dostoevsky, is a testament to the author's brilliant sense of style and subtle treatment of the psychology of his characters. The narrative revolves around the life of a young clerk, just engaged and facing severe inner turmoil. As his vision of universal happiness collides with has his individual pleasure, he discovers that he cannot relish personal joys of marriage to a beautiful and young girl. An earlier work, it has plausible diagnosis of the human nature.
Los hermanos Karamázov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Voz Subterrânea
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fiódor Dostoiévski (Moscovo, 1821 - S. Petesburgo, 1881) foi um notável escritor russo, autor de romances que marcaram profundamente a literatura contemporânea, como Crime e Castigo (1866) e Os Irmãos Karamazov (1880). Explorando como ninguém os abismos da alma humana, Dostoiévski centra os seus livros no mundo interior das suas personagens, normalmente atormentadas por crises e obsessões demenciais e movidas por pulsões irracionais.
Em A Voz Subterrânea (1864) contemplamos, ao longo de um monólogo introspectivo, o lado sombrio e cínico do homem moderno, inquieto e mesquinho perante a consciência da sua futilidade e irrelevância, insatisfeito apesar de todo o progresso tecnológico e obscuro diante das conquistas científicas. De impressionante actualidade, esta narrativa é indispensável para a perfeita compreensão do autor russo.
Noites Brancas
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notas do Subterrâneo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Possessed (The Devils): Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
El jugador
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Escrito en poco menos de cuatro semanas en 1866, como resultado de una apuesta con su editor, El jugador es una de las novelas de Dostoievski más entretenidas y satíricas, así como un retrato tragicómico de la adicción al juego. Alekséi Ivánovich, un tutor que trabaja para la familia de un general ruso, pasa con ellos una temporada en Ruletenburg, y observa desde una posición privilegiada los intentos de la misma por sobrevivir, abocándolos a la más sórdida decadencia. Justo cuando las cosas parecen a punto de arreglarse, ocurre un hecho inesperado que da al traste con las esperanzas de futuro de la familia, y precipita la resolución de los amoríos del general, y del propio y desesperanzado amor de Alekséi Ivánovich por Polina Aleksándrovna. Repleta de giros del destino y súbitos cambios de fortuna, El jugador es un magnífico ejemplo del genio de Dostoievski para describir vidas desesperanzadas, manipulación, falta de escrúpulos, y estados emocionales llevados al límite.
Humiliated and Insulted
Fyodor Dostoevsky
First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcilable relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevsky's later fiction, but is a powerful and original presence in his own right.
This new translation catches the verve and tumult of the original, which – in concept and execution – affords a refreshingly unfamiliar glimpse of the author.
Les Nuits Blanches
Fyodor Dostoevsky
El eterno marido
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Considerada una de las obras más logradas de Fiódor Dostoyevski (1821-1881), la novela “El eterno marido” (1870) gira en torno al conflicto que surge del triángulo marido-esposa-amante. El autor ruso, sin embargo, le da un enfoque singular. En efecto, situando a la mujer por distintos medios como polo nebuloso, aunque no por ello menos atractivo, la obra profundiza en el motivo centrándose en la ambivalente relación de atracción y repulsión que experimentan Pável Pávlovich Trusotski –hombre nacido con la vocación irrefrenable de ser eterna y necesariamente marido, y marido burlado, por más señas– y Velchanínov –un Don Juan neurasténico e irresoluto, quien, por no ser enteramente ajeno al sentimentalismo, se desvía en gran medida del clásico burlador–, y en los efectos tragicómicos que resultan de tal relación.
Ricordi dal sottosuolo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Uscito a puntate, nel 1865, sulla rivista "Epocha" (Epoca), "Ricordi dal sottosuolo", scritto sotto forma di un monologo-confessione, è uno dei più terribili e impietosi viaggi all'interno della coscienza umana della letteratura europea. Il protagonista è un ipocondriaco che vive ai margini della società, scrutandola (e scrutandosi) con odio e sospetto. È il romanzo della svolta artistica e filosofica dello scrittore russo. Come scrive Pacini nella sua Introduzione, in questo romanzo "Dostoevskij ha individuato e descritto il nemico da combattere: quel sottosuolo che è la quintessenza di ciò che chiude l'uomo nel cerchio dell'odio e della lotta, che lo fa arroccare su se stesso, condannandolo a macerarsi nella solitudine e nella disperazione. Da questo momento la sua via come romanziere è definitivamente segnata, ed egli la perseguirà convinto che sia l'unica via praticabile, quella che conduce verso l'amore e verso Cristo".
The Dream of a Queer Fellow & the Pushkin Speech
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A Gentle Creature
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Gentle Spirit" (Russian: Кроткая, Krotkaya), sometimes also translated as "The Meek One", is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1876. The piece comes with the subtitle of "A Fantastic Story", and it chronicles the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl that frequents his shop.
Notes from Underground & The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Amintiri din Casa Morților
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Am citit Casa Mortilor. Uitasem multe din ea si am recitit-o; nu cunosc o carte mai buna in toata literatura noua, incluzandu-l pe Puskin. Nu tonul, ci punctul de vedere este uimitor, sincer, natural si crestinesc. O carte buna, convingatoare. M-m delectat ieri toata ziua cu ea, cum nu m-am mai delectat de mult. Daca-l vedeti pe Dostoievski, transmiteti-i ca-l iubesc. (Lev Tolstoi, scrisoare catre N.N. Stahov)
In Amintiri din Casa Mortilor sunt abordate probleme filosofice care, mai tarziu, vor constitui inconfundabilul substrat ideatic dostoievskian: libertatea, crima, natura umana, mandria, relatia dintre popor si intelighentie, nebunia, iubirea aproapelui, solidaritatea umana, smerenia. Datorita acestui fond filosofic, textul are un pronuntat caracter eseistic si contribuie la constituirea vocii distincte dostoievskiene, cea care va deveni pregnanta in marile creatii din urmatoarea perioada.
Fascinant de urmarit in Amintiri din Casa Mortilor ramane felul in care o mana de maestru a impletit elemente documentare/autobiografice si imaginare, pentru a obtine o proza profund originala si o rascolitoare lectie despre suferinta. (Camelia Dinu)
Zbrodnia i kara
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dramat ubogiego studenta Rodiona Raskolnikowa, który postanowił zamordować starą lichwiarkę, aby udowodnić swoją wielkość, od lat fascynuje czytelników. Być może dlatego, że ten wstrząsający moralitet o upadku i odkupieniu jest zarazem pasjonującą powieścią sensacyjną. Dostojewski z ogromną przenikliwością przedstawia psychikę drobiazgowo planującego zabójstwo maniaka, jak również pozornie nieporadnego, a w rzeczywistości diabolicznie inteligentnego policjanta. "Zbrodnia i kara" odsłania świat nędzy, głodu, poniżenia i okrucieństwa, w którym jedyną szansą na zbawienie jest miłość, bezwarunkowa, wszechogarniająca i wytrwała. Jednak prawdziwym bohaterem arcydzieła wielkiego Rosjanina jest miasto, niesamowity, pełen dziwnego czaru, a zarazem odrażający Petersburg, gdzie piękne kobiety popadają w szaleństwo, prostytutki zamieniają się w anioły, lubieżnicy łkają ze skruchy - miasto, gdzie może wydarzyć się wszystko...
Il coccodrillo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pietroburgo, anni Sessanta dell’Ottocento. In un negozio del Passage, l’elegante galleria commerciale – la prima in Russia – inaugurata nel 1848 sul Nevskij prospekt, un tedesco espone a pagamento un coccodrillo. Il funzionario Ivan Matveič, uomo supponente e ignorante, e la sua bella moglie Elena Ivanovna vanno ad ammirare l’esotica attrazione con un amico di famiglia. Ma quando Ivan Matveič cerca di solleticargli il naso con un guanto, il coccodrillo lo inghiotte in un solo boccone. Sventrare l’animale sembrerebbe l’unica soluzione – «retrograda», però, osserva un progressista di passaggio. E lo stesso Ivan Matveič, dal ventre del suo leviatano – grande, comodo, solo un po’ troppo odoroso di gomma –, fa sapere che vuole restarsene lì dentro. Lontano dagli svaghi mondani, sostiene, potrà dedicarsi come un «nuovo Fourier» a migliorare le sorti del genere umano, e «dal coccodrillo ... verranno la verità e la luce». Mentre al Passage la gente si accalca per vedere il «mostro», Ivan Matveič – caustica parodia di Černyševskij e di tutti i pensatori «rivoluzionari» dell’epoca – continua a fantasticare sulle nuove magnifiche sorti e progressive della patria russa.
Strizzando l’occhio al Naso di Gogol’, anticipando altre e più tremende metamorfosi novecentesche, divertendosi e divertendo, Dostoevskij presagisce il trionfo della borghesia, il culto del benessere e del profitto, fino alla passione per gli shopping center, e costruisce l’immagine di un «nuovo mondo» tanto risibile quanto mostruoso.
Il sosia
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Il mite e umile consigliere Jakòv Petrovic' Goljadkin non è quello che sembra: vive in lui un doppio, un "sosia". Il suo io non è un tutto compatto e unico, bensì un mobile e disintegrabile complesso di impulsi che possono scindersi in altri io, tra loro in alternanza e in conflitto. Il suo sosia non è semplicemente una persona tanto somigliante a lui da poter essere per lui scambiata, ma, come dice la parola russa dvojnik, è la proiezione di un io in un altro io autonomo rispetto al primo. Esistono nel romanzo due Goljadkin che si completano in quanto totalmente opposti: uno timido e sottomesso, l'altro furbo e arrivista. E Goljadkin, come spiega Vittorio Strada nell'introduzione, è "la patologia dell'uomo qualunque, il primo gradino di quello 'sdoppiamento' che costituisce la malattia dell'uomo moderno".
Notes from Underground & Other Stories
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."
With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa.
Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky’s short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, explore the same complex psychological issues and subtly combine rich characterization and philosophical meditations on the (often) dark areas of the human psyche, all conveyed in an idiosyncratic blend of deadly seriousness and wild humour. In Notes from Underground, the Underground Man casually dismantles utilitarianism and celebrates in its stead a perverse but vibrant masochism. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding recounts the successful pursuit of a young girl by a lecherous old man. In Bobok, one Ivan Ivanovitch listens in on corpses gossiping in a cemetery and ends up deploring their depravity. In A Gentle Spirit, the narrator describes his dawning recognition that he is responsible for his wife’s suicide. In short, as a commentator on spiritual stagnation, Dostoevsky has no equal.
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