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)
8 أعمال دوستويفسكي الأدبية: الجريمة والعقاب 1 ـ المجلد
Fyodor Dostoevsky
إنه دوستويفسكي, الروائي العظيم الفريد من نوعه الذي أثر فينا ثأثيراً كبيراً, بحيث جعل من نفسه شريكاً لنا في تصرفاتنا وأفعالنا السيئة منها قبل الحسنة. لم يكن دستويفسكي عالماً نفسياً, لكنه تمكن من الغوص إلى أعماق أعماقنا, فتعرف إلى أفكارنا, التي كثيراً ما كنا نرغب ألا يتعرف أحد إليها, فجعلنا محرجين, ليس أمام الآخرين وحسب, بل, وحتى, أمام أنفسنا.
هذاالروائي العظيم الذي مزق العذاب جسده على مدى ستين عاماً كاملة. ما عرف للطفولة معنى, ولا للشباب صبوة, وجاءت شيخوخته امتداداً لماضيه: عذاب... معاناة, أرق وقلق... إنه القدر الذي يقسو عليه لكنه يعجز عن قهره, فكان مبدعاً خلاقاً, حول آلامه إلى رجاء. إنه أشبه بحبات الحنطى تحت حجر الرحى, يطحنها لتصبح عجين خبز يسد جوع الجياع.
منذ البداية, نلحظ رغبة راسكولنيكوف التي هي ضد إرادته في ارتكاب جريمة مزدوجة. منذ تلك اللحظه, ونحن نشاركه صراعه الداخلي القائم على الإعتزاز بنفسه والاشمئزاز منها في الوقت ذاته, فأيهما يتبع؟ فصرنا أسرى هذا الصراع حتى انغمسنا كلياً في مشاعر البطل وأفعاله, وتحولنا إلى راسكولنيكوف ثان وكدنا نرتكب الجريمة معه..
"الجريمة والعقاب", رواية مبنية على أساس الصراع الداخلي عند الإنسان وخاصةً الرغبة في التعبير عن النفس وإثباتها في مواجهة الأخلاقيات والقوانين التي أوجدها البشر مما يجعلنا نحس بقلق مضن ونتساءل عن العدالة في هذا العالم وفي الوقت ذاته نتساءل عما إذا كان يحق لنا الإقتصاص من العدالة ومن الأخلاقيات.
9 أعمال دوستويفسكي الأدبية: الجريمة والعقاب 2 ـ المجلد
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.
A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Fyodor Dostoevsky
In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from 'living life'. Despite his sentimental friendship with Nastenka, his final withdrawal into the world of the imagination anticipates the retreat into the 'underground' of many of Dostoevsky's later intellectual heroes. A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how such withdrawal from reality can end in spiritual desolation and moral indifference and how, in Dostoevsky's view, the tragedy of the alienated individual can be resolved only by the rediscovery of a sense of compassion and responsibility towards fellow human beings. This new translation captures the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky's writing, while the introduction examines the stories in relation to one another and to his novels. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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)
Anteckningar från källarhålet
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Apuntes de la Casa Muerta
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fiódor Dostoievski fue acusado y condenado a causa de ciertas relaciones que tuvo con grupos revolucionarios. Tal actividad le envió al penal siberiano de Omsk, donde estuvo entre los años 1850 y 1854. En ese duro periodo gestó Apuntes de la Casa Muerta, que se publicó entre 1861 y 1862. En ella se aprecian ya no sólo el conocimiento y la observación prodigiosos de la naturaleza y el comportamiento humano, que se agudizó durante los años de su condena, sino también la importancia que cobra en sus páginas la preocupación por la dimensión moral y espiritual del hombre, que alcanzará sus máximos exponentes en obras posteriores como Crimen y castigo, Los hermanos Karamázov o El idiota.
A submissa
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.
Aufzeichnungen aus einem toten Haus
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."
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.
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.
A Writer's Diary, Volume One, 1873-1876
Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is the first paperback edition of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. A Writer's Diary began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on The Brothers Karamazov in order to do so.
The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame A Writer's Diary was to combine an astonishing variety of material: short stories; humorous sketches; reports on sensational crimes; historical predictions; portraits of famous people; autobiographical pieces; and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared later in the Diary itself. A range of authorial and narrative voices and stances, and an elaborate scheme of allusions and cross-references, preserve and present Dostoevsky's conception of his work as a literary whole.
Volume I begins with an extensive study by Gary Saul Morson, which provides a fascinating context for the work's form and content.
A Writer's Diary, Volume Two, 1877-1881
Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is the first paperback edition of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. A Writer's Diary began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on The Brothers Karamazov in order to do so.
The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame A Writer's Diary was to combine an astonishing variety of material: short stories; humorous sketches; reports on sensational crimes; historical predictions; portraits of famous people; autobiographical pieces; and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared later in the Diary itself. A range of authorial and narrative voices and stances, and an elaborate scheme of allusions and cross-references, preserve and present Dostoevsky's conception of his work as a literary whole.
Volume 2 contains a comprehensive index to both volumes.
Białe noce
Fyodor Dostoevsky
White Nights, is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersburg, this 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.
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.
Bobók
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bracia Karamazow
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bracia Karamazow to ostatnia i najdojrzalsza powieść Fiodora Dostojewskiego. Opowiada dzieje czterech braci, których łączy tragedia: zabójstwo ojca. Każdy z nich, obciążony własnymi winami, kierowany emocjami i pożądaniem, na swój sposób usiłuje odnaleźć miejsce w mrocznej mozaice rodziny Karamazowów.
Powieść rosyjskiego mistrza jest uznawana za jedno z największych dzieł w historii literatury. Obok wątków obyczajowych porusza fundamentalne problemy, z którymi zmaga się ludzkość: pytanie o istnienie Boga w racjonalnym świecie, trwałość wartości w obliczu zmian i nieświadome krążenie człowieka między złem i pokutą.
Nowy kongenialny przekład Adama Pomorskiego wraz z komentarzami i posłowiem pozwala polskiemu czytelnikowi w pełni rozsmakować się w rozległej panoramie powieści.
Brødrene Karamasov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I Brødrene Karamasov bruker dikteren en mordgåte som bakgrunn for å drøfte livets viktige spørsmål: Kan mennesket leve uten Gud? Aldri har argumentet mot den gudegitte verdensordning blitt fremført med større kraft enn av tvileren Ivan Karamasov, som velger å "returnere inngangsbilletten" til en verden av sult og barnemishandling.
Brott och straff
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cadernos do Subterrâneo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pelo tom agreste, pelas cores sombrias até à repulsa, pela tensão quase raivosa das situações e da linguagem (aliás despojada dos floreios elegantes com que muitas traduções insistem em ornamentar os textos do autor) este "Cadernos do Subterrâneo" é "puro" Dostoiévski. Publicado em 1864 numa revista, este livro já prefigura as obras ditas maiores do autor, sendo por isso considerado um texto fundamental para a compreensão do legado de Dostoiévski. O livro tem duas partes: a primeira é um longo e violento monólogo (os "Cadernos"), em que o autor humilhado se humilha ainda mais, até à degradação; a segunda põe o herói em acção, ilustrando o confronto do seu ego degradado com as franjas da sociedade que vai encontrando. O "guincho ignóbil" (como disse Gorki) a que desceu este herói do nosso tempo é também a voz - embora guinchada e repulsiva - que passa por toda a obra de Dostoiévski: a da afirmação do direito à liberdade do indivíduo, seja quais forem os contornos que assuma.
Crimă și pedeapsă
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
Crime e Castigo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publicado em 1866, 'Crime e Castigo' é a obra mais célebre de Dostoievski. Neste livro, Raskólnikov, um jovem estudante, pobre e desesperado, perambula pelas ruas de São Petersburgo até cometer um crime que tentará justificar por uma teoria - grandes homens, como César ou Napoleão, foram assassinos absolvidos pela História. Este ato desencadeia uma narrativa labiríntica que arrasta o leitor por becos, tabernas e pequenos cômodos, povoados de personagens que lutam para preservar sua dignidade contra as várias formas da tirania.
Essa é a primeira edição traduzida diretamente do russo no Brasil, trabalho do renomado professor Paulo Bezerra.
Crimen y castigo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crimen y castigo (1866), considerada por la crítica como la primera obra maestra de Dostoievski, es un profundo análisis psicológico de su protagonista, el joven estudiante Raskolnikov, cuya firme creencia en que los fines humanitarios justifican la maldad le conduce al asesinato de un usurero petersburgués. Pero, desde que comete el crimen, la culpabilidad será una pesadilla constante con la que el estudiante será incapaz de convivir. El estilo enfebrecido y compasivo de Dostoievski sigue con maestría única los recovecos de las contradictorias emociones del estudiante y refleja la lucha extrema que libra con su conciencia mientras deambula por las calles de San Petersburgo. Ya en prisión, Raskolnikov se da cuenta de que la felicidad no puede ser alcanzada siguiendo un plan establecido a priori por la razón: ha de ganarse con sufrimiento.
Cuentos de Fiodor Dostoievski / Stories. Fiodor Dostoievski (Penguin Clasicos) (Spanish Edition)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
«Uno de los grandes méritos de Dostoievski consiste en exponer con apasionada lucidez convicciones políticas, religiosas o morales adversas a las suyas. En esta peculiar recreación coral, la autoridad de la voz no proviene de un narrador que opera como un demiurgo que conoce los pensamientos de todas sus creaturas, sino de los protagonistas mismos, que debaten entre sí. Corresponde al lector interpretar, tomar partido.»
Juan Villoro
Los Cuentos de Fiódor M. Dostoievski (Moscú, 1821-San Petersburgo, 1881) intentan abarcar todo el período de su actividad como escritor, desde sus comienzos literarios en 1845 hasta 1877, año en que comienza a escribir Los hermanos Karamázov . Las historias que se incluyen en este volumen, no por breves menos geniales que sus novelas, ofrecen al lector una visión amplia de la compleja personalidad artística de este gran escritor ruso, que siempre consideró su deber «rehabilitar al individuo destruido, aplastado por el injusto yugo de las circunstancias, del estancamiento secular y de los prejuicios sociales».
Delitto e castigo (Italian Edition)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Confessa Raskòl'nikov! Il giudice istruttore Porfirij Petrovic ha capito tutto e sta giocando con te come il gatto con il topo. Non puoi più scappare né da lui né da te stesso. Fallo per tua madre, per tua sorella, per il tuo amico Razumichin e, soprattutto, per Sonja. Confessa Raskòl'nikov! Solo così potrai redimerti e abbattere quel muro di rabbia e solitudine che ti isola dal mondo. Il tuo destino è ancora tutto da scrivere e vivere, ma devi liberarti dall'implacabile idealismo che ti ha spinto a commettere un atroce quanto inutile omicidio, arrogandoti la pretesa di distinguere il bene dal male, il giusto dall'ingiusto. Ma quale diritto abbiamo di parlarti in questo modo, di giudicarti? Forse possiamo farlo perché, in fondo, siamo come te: spaesati, impauriti, angosciati e nel contempo alla costante ricerca di un modo per affermare noi stessi, anche a scapito delle leggi morali. La tua storia è la nostra storia di uomini moderni, divisi tra un nichilismo senza speranza e il disperato desiderio di trovare un senso alla nostra esistenza.
Demonii
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
Der Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Drama um Liebe, Mord und die Zerstörung eines Ideals.
Fürst Myschkin leidet an Epilepsie. Seiner Krankheit, mehr noch seiner Güte und Bescheidenheit wegen gilt er als »Idiot« und gerät unversehens in die Fänge der intriganten St. Petersburger Gesellschaft. Es beginnt ein Drama um Liebe, Mord und die Zerstörung eines Ideals.
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?
Die Brüder Karamasow
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Der letzte Roman Fjodor Dostojewskis übertrifft alle vorausgegangenen in der Breite und Komplexität der Anlage. Er kann als Vermächtnis, als die Summe seines Schaffens gelten: Hier laufen alle philosophischen und thematischen Hauptlinien zusammen. Eine geplante Fortsetzung kam wegen des frühen Todes des Autors nicht mehr zu Stande.
Inhalt: Es scheint beinahe unmöglich, die auf verschiedenen Ebenen sich entfaltende Handlung bündig zu referieren, zu Grunde liegt aber auch diesem Roman die bei Dostojewski typische Fabel einer Kriminalerzählung: Die drei Söhne von Fjodor Karamasow, einem alten Lüstling und Possenreißer, kehren als Erwachsene ins Elternhaus zurück und müssen sich mit ihrem Hass auf den Vater auseinander setzen, dessen Tod sie alle mehr oder minder offen wünschen[...] N. S.
Die Dämonen
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Die Dämonen ist ein 1873 veröffentlichter Roman von Fjodor Dostojewski. Der Titel wird oft auch als Böse Geister, Die Teufel oder Die Besessenen übersetzt.Das Buch beschreibt das politische und soziale Leben im vorrevolutionären Russland des späten 19. Jahrhunderts, als unter zunehmender Labilität der zaristischen Herrschaft und traditionellen Wertesysteme verschiedene Ideologien (Nihilismus, Sozialismus, Liberalismus, Konservatismus) aufeinanderprallten, die von Dostojewski jeweils in einem Protagonisten dargestellt werden.Der Roman ist in drei Bücher eingeteilt. Das vergleichsweise handlungsarme erste Buch stellt die Charaktere ausführlich dar, im zweiten Buch werden die Konflikte zwischen den Protagonisten entwickelt, die im dritten Buch schließlich zum Ausbruch kommen.Die Handlung spielt ausschließlich in einer namentlich nicht genannten Provinz nahe Sankt Petersburg und wird von dem Beamten Anton Lawrentjewitsch erzählt, der die Ereignisse und Gespräche entweder selbst mitverfolgt oder aus dritter Hand wiedergibt.Lawrentjewitsch ist ein enger Freund von Stepan Trofimowitsch Werchowenski, der als Hauslehrer und Schöngeist bei der vermögenden und herrischen Witwe Warwara Petrowna Stawrogina lebt. Ihr Sohn Nikolai Stawrogin kehrt nach einem ausschweifenden Leben im Ausland und in St. Petersburg moralisch ernüchtert zurück. Zugleich taucht auch Pjotr Stepanowitsch Werchowenski, der Sohn Stepan Trofimowitschs, wieder auf, und zwar mit dem Ziel, alle weltlichen und religiösen Autoritäten zu stürzen. Dazu bedient er sich skrupellos einer konspirativen Fünfergruppe, zu deren Umfeld auch der Student Schatow, der Ingenieur Kirillow sowie der Intellektuelle Schigalew gehören. Die Anzeichen großer Konflikte verdichten sich am Ende des ersten Buchs, als die Pläne von Stawrogins Mutter, ihren Sohn lukrativ mit Lisaweta Nikolajewna zu verheiraten, daran zerbrechen, dass er heimlich und grundlos Marja Timofejewna geheiratet hat, die verkrüppelte und geisteskranke Schwester des Trunkenbolds Lebadkin.
Dublul
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Iakov Petrovici Goliadkin este unul dintre acei funcționari obscuri care populează literatura rusă, de la Gogol și până la Bulgakov. Un om șters, ușor stângaci, ușor penibil, cu un discurs ezitant și confuz. Are, însă, locul lui stabil în societate și în instituția la care este angajat. Totul, până într-o zi în care apare copia lui, cu același nume și cu înfățișare identică. Din acest moment, propria viață îi scapă de sub control adevăratului Goliadkin. Pe măsură ce acțiunea evoluează, frustrarea pe care o simțim din solidaritate cu personajul principal este dublată de multitudinea de ipoteze sugerate de răsturnările de situație. Chiar dacă Goliadkin nu este un individ întru totul agreabil, Dostoievski are putearea de a ne deschide inimile pentru cei care, dincolo de aparente și conveniențe, sunt onești și au principii morale ferme.
Scris la vârsta de douăzeci și cinci de ani, imediat după debutul cu "Oameni sărmani", "Dublul" este, în mod evident, o continuare a liniei deschise de Gogol, în care realismul poartă accente întunecare de suprarealism.
El doble
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.
El idiota
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Este ebook presenta "El idiota", con un indice dinámico y detallado. Es una novela escrita por Fiódor Dostoyevski. Fue publicada originalmente en serie en El mensajero ruso entre 1868 y 1869. Está considerada como una de las novelas más brillantes de Dostoyevski y de la "Edad de Oro" de la literatura rusa. La novela se sitúa en la Rusia de mediados del siglo XIX y narra el regreso del joven príncipe Mishkin a su San Petersburgo natal, tras pasar parte de su vida en Suiza recuperándose de su dolencia. Es el propio Mishkin quien se presenta a sí mismo como enfermo de idiotez en proceso de curación, y como tal es recibido por sus conciudadanos, que consideran síntomas de la mente enferma del príncipe su inocencia y honestidad, valores insólitos en el frívolo ambiente de la sociedad pudiente.Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoyevski ( 1821 - 1881) es uno de los principales escritores de la Rusia Zarista, cuya literatura explora la psicología humana en el complejo contexto político, social y espiritual de la sociedad rusa del siglo XIX.
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.
Els germans Karamàzov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
El sueño de un hombre ridículo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
El sueño de un hombre ridículo es un relato corto escrito en 1877 por Fiódor Dostoyevski, uno de los escritores rusos más importantes del siglo XIX. El cuento está estructurado en cinco partes y contado en primera persona por un narrador protagonista que relata la historia de la revelación que tuvo gracias un sueño utópico.
En löjlig människas dröm
Fyodor Dostoevsky
House of the Dead (Dostoyevsky Collection)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1861-2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead and Notes from the Dead House (or Notes from a Dead House). The book is a loosely-knit collection of facts, events and philosophical discussion organised by "theme" rather than as a continuous story. Dostoyevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a camp following his conviction for involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This experience allowed him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of prison life and the characters of the convicts.
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.
I demoni
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Petr Verchovenskij, guidato ideologicamente dal demoniaco Stavrogin, è a capo di un'organizzazione nichilista e lega i suoi seguaci con una serie di delitti. L'ultima vittima è Satov, un ex-seguace convertitosi alla fede ortodossa. Per coprire il delitto Petr obbliga Kirillov a scrivere una lettera di autodenuncia, prima di suicidarsi. Altri delitti, apparentemente immotivati, seguono e solo il suicidio di Stavrogin che si impicca nella soffitta del suo appartamento, sembra pore fine all'azione di questi "demoni".
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).
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 giocatore
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Il giocatore è un romanzo di Fedor Dostoevskij, dettato in un mese a Anna Grigorievna Snitkina (che diventerà in seguito la sua fidanzata) e pubblicato nel 1866. Scritto per necessità (lo scrittore doveva pagare dei debiti di gioco), pressato dagli editori ai quali aveva promesso questo romanzo, contemporaneo di Delitto e castigo, Il giocatore è comunque diventato un capolavoro e un punto di riferimento della narrativa russa dell'Ottocento. Dostoevskij analizza il gioco d'azzardo in tutte le sue forme con i diversi tipi di giocatori, dai ricchi nobili europei, ai poveretti che si giocano tutti i loro averi, ai ladri tipici dei casinò. È anche uno studio delle diverse peculiarità delle popolazioni europee: la severità del barone tedesco, la vanità del conte italiano, il ricco gentleman inglese e il francese manipolatore.
Il giocatore / Le notti bianche / La mite / Il sogno di un uomo ridicolo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Accanito, e non fortunatissimo, giocatore per molti anni, Dostoevskij scrisse Il giocatore in soli ventotto giorni nell’ottobre del 1866. Nell’immaginaria stazione termale di Roulettemburg, Aleksej Ivanovič, intellettuale russo sradicato, finisce per rischiare il suo stesso destino. Eroe del romanzo breve Le notti bianche, opera del periodo cosiddetto «romantico» di Dostoevskij, è la figura del sognatore, nella cui piatta esistenza, chiusa in un mondo di fantasticherie, piomba per un breve attimo la giovane Nasten’ka. Nella più matura espressione della sua vena creativa, Dostoevskij ci presenta ne La mite il racconto introspettivo e raggelante di un marito che veglia la giovane moglie morta suicida; Il sogno di un uomo ridicolo è il monologo di un uomo che, abbandonato da tutti e deciso a uccidersi, sprofonda in un sogno che lo trasporta in un mondo primordiale, un’onirica età dell’oro.
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".
La dulce
Fyodor Dostoevsky
«Imaginen un marido cuya mujer, una suicida que se ha arrojado por la ventana hace sólo unas horas, yace ante él sobre una mesa. Él está conmocionado y no ha tenido tiempo de ordenar sus ideas. Camina de habitación en habitación e intenta dar un sentido a lo que acaba de ocurrir. [...] De ahí que se cuente a sí mismo la historia, intente aclarársela». Así explica Dostoievski su obra en la «Nota del autor» que precede La dulce, a la que llama relato fantástico.
La dulce se basa probablemente en hechos verídicos en que el autor ruso se inspiró para escribir una de sus más inquietantes novelas cortas. Como si de un viaje al pasado se tratara, Dostoievski, a través de las contradicciones, remordimientos y justificaciones en el soliloquio del protagonista «ante un auditorio invisible o una especie de juez», investiga en los recuerdos a la búsqueda de lo que se encuentra en el alma humana.
Le Joueur
Fyodor Dostoevsky
«Paulina éclata de rire :
- Vous m'avez dit l'autre jour, sur le Schlangenberg, que vous étiez prêt, sur un mot de moi, à vous jeter en bas, la tête la première et nous étions bien à mille pieds de haut. Je dirai ce mot un jour, uniquement pour voir si vous vous exécutez et soyez certain que je montrerai du caractère. Je vous hais justement parce que je vous ai permis tellement de choses, et je vous hais encore plus parce que vous m'êtes si nécessaire.»
Le notti bianche
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Il tema del «sognatore romantico», dell'eroe solitario che – come l'«anima bella» schilleriana che vive nel regno dell'ideale e dell'utopia estetica più astratta – trascorre i suoi giorni immerso nella dimensione del sogno, in un paradiso di illusioni, malinconicamente sofferente e lontano dall'incolore e consueta realtà dell'esistenza quotidiana, percorre come un filo di Arianna questo racconto. In una notte bianca, crudelmente reale, passeggiando solitario l'eroe del racconto incontra sul lungofiume una ragazza che risveglia in lui il sentimento dell'amore – il simbolo della temuta vita reale –, e coraggiosamente egli decide di fuggire dal regno dei sogni e delle fantasticherie in cui trascorre i suoi giorni, aprendosi alla vita. Ma quando la ragazza gli rivela di amare un altro, la sua speranza svanisce, annullata dalla crudele vendetta del destino, ricacciata nella dimensione del sogno, a un tempo capace di dare felicità e sofferenza. Un regno delle illusioni che è anche metaforicamente simbolo del male.
Con un saggio di André Gide. Introduzione di Giovanna Spendel.
Le notti bianche. La cronaca di Pietroburgo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Un giovane sognatore, nella magia vagamente inquieta delle nordiche notti bianche, incontra una misteriosa fanciulla e vive la sua “educazione sentimentale”, segnata da un brusco risveglio con conseguente ritorno alla realtà. Un Dostoevskij lirico, ispirato, comincia a riflettere sulle disillusioni dell’esistenza e dell’amore nell’ultima opera pubblicata prima dell’arresto e della deportazione, esperienze che modificheranno in maniera radicale e definitiva la sua concezione dell’uomo e dell’arte. In questa edizione, al celebre racconto viene affiancata la visione “diurna” di Pietroburgo contenuta nei feuilletons che compongono la Cronaca di Pietroburgo, vero e proprio laboratorio per la scrittura dostoevskiana. Lo stretto legame tra pubblicistica e letteratura, che accompagnerà Dostoevskij negli anni della maturità, viene così a manifestarsi fin quasi dal suo esordio. Il racconto Le notti bianche ha ispirato il film omonimo di Luchino Visconti (1957), con Marcello Mastroianni e Maria Schell, e il film Quattro notti di un sognatore di Robert Bresson (1971).
Le notti bianche / Povera gente
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Les Carnets du sous-sol
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Les Nuits Blanches
Fyodor Dostoevsky
«Les Nuits blanches», c’est d’abord un vrai roman d’amour. Un jeune homme solitaire et romanesque rencontre, une nuit, dans Pétersbourg désert, une jeune fille éplorée. Désespérée par un chagrin d’amour, Nastenka se laisse aller au fantasme du jeune homme, amoureux depuis le premier instant, le berce ― et se berce ― dans l’illusion, jusqu’à ce que… le fiancé revienne et qu’elle se jette dans ses bras. Dès lors, comme le note Michel Del Castillo dans sa lecture, tout est soudain "marqué au sceau de l’inauthenticité".
La nouvelle traduction d’André Markowicz tire de ce roman un parti stylistique étonnant. Discordante, ironique, la voix que l’on entend ici est bien celle du grand écrivain russe, qui n’a cessé sa vie durant de se battre, au nom de la vérité, contre l’élégance trompeuse, celle des mots et celle des sentiments.
Lo mejor de Dostoyevski (Spanish Edition)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Este ebook presenta "Lo mejor de Dostoyevski" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. El escritor ruso Fiodor (o Fédor) Dostoievski (1821-1881), es uno de los mayores novelistas de la historia y aportó gran cantidad de bases para las novelas modernas. En sus novelas, explora el alma humana, en un complejo contexto espiritual, social y político de la sociedad rusa del siglo XIX. Fiódor Dostoyevski sufrió persecución por su política contraria al zarismo de la época. Después de haber sido condenado a muerte por sus actividades revolucionarias, pasó nueve años de prisión. Fue deportado a Siberia, condenado a trabajos forzados en Omsk. Más tarde escapó al extranjero huyendo de sus acreedores (1867) y no volvió a su país hasta 1871. Las penalidades que sufrió en su vida ha influido patentemente en la gran profundidad psicológica e intenso patetismo en sus novelas. Noches blancas Memorias del subsuelo Crimen y castigo El jugador El idiota Los hermanos Karamázov El Gran Inquisidor El Sueño del Príncipe
Los demonios
Fyodor Dostoevsky
El horrible crimen perpetrado en Moscú a finales de 1869 siguiendo órdenes del nihilista Necháyev, seguidor de Bakunin, fue la fuente de inspiración que sirvió a Fiódor Dostoyevski (1821-1881) para construir la trama argumental y perfilar los caracteres de los principales personajes de “Los demonios”. Entre ellos destaca con fuerza Nikolai Stavrogin, figura atormentada que casi un siglo después habría de fascinar a Albert Camus y que introduce en la novela una dimensión teológica y metafísica que la lleva mucho más allá de la mera reconstrucción de la historia o de la diatriba política, propiciando el salto cualitativo que hace de esta obra sin duda una las más destacadas del gran autor ruso.
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Los hermanos Karamázov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Los hijos legítimos de Fiódor Pávlovich Karamázov –un «bufón», un «filisteo», un «déspota», solo en última instancia un padre– se reúnen después de haber sido educados, lejos unos de otros, en distintas partes de Rusia: Dmitri es soldado y –como su padre– puro «ímpetu», bebedor, derrochador, lujurioso; Iván se ha convertido en un escéptico que duda de la ley, de la conciencia y de la fe (el primer existencialista, según Sartre); Aliosha ha abrazado la religión, todo el mundo lo llama «ángel» y vive en un monasterio. Ineluctablemente, la reunión familiar precipita la disolución y la tragedia.
Los Hermanos Karamazov (Sepan Cuantos, #106)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
En Los hermanos Karamazov, su obra más grande, compleja y discutida, Dostoievski expresó todos los problemas que le preocupaban: la lucha entre el bien y el mal, la preponderancia sobre el humanismo cristiano del dogma religioso y el destino de Rusia bajo la influencia revolucionara occidental, entre otros.
Esta novela constituye, pues, su última y más profunda inmersión en el caos de la mente y la pasión humanas.
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.
Memórias do Subsolo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
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.
Nietoschka Nezvanova / Noches Blancas
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Un joven solitario e introvertido narra cómo conoce de forma accidental a una muchacha durante una “noche blanca”, fenómeno que se da en la ciudad rusa durante la época del solsticio de verano y a causa del cual la oscuridad nunca es completa. Tras el primer encuentro, la pareja de desconocidos se citará durante las cuatro noches siguientes, noches en las que la chica, de nombre Nastenka, relatará su triste historia, y en las que harán acto de presencia, de forma sutil y envolvente, las grandes pasiones que mueven al ser humano: el amor, la ilusión, la esperanza, el desamor, el desengaño.
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.
Noites Brancas
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Durante uma das maravilhosas 'noites brancas' do verão de São Petersburgo, em que o sol praticamente não se põe, dois jovens se encontram numa ponte sobre o rio Nievá, dando início a uma história carregada de fantasia, emoção e lirismo. Nesta novela singular, publicada em 1848, Dostoiévski constrói uma atmosfera delicada e fantasmagórica, que evoca o gosto romântico da época. Nela, a própria cidade de São Petersburgo - com seus palácios e pontes, seus espaços monumentais - revela-se como personagem.
Notas do Subterrâneo
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tradução de Moacir Werneck de Castro
Notes from a Dead House
Fyodor Dostoevsky
In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail.
The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from Dante's Inferno.
Terror and resignation - the rampages of a pyschopath, the brief serence interlude of Christmas Day - are evoked by Dostoevsky, writing several years after his release, with a strikingly uncharacteristic detachment. For this reason, House of the Dead is certainly the least Dostoevskian of his works, yet, paradoxically, it ranks among his great masterpieces.
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.
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.
Notes from Underground and The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Collected here in Penguin Classics are two of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's shorter works, Notes from Underground and The Double, translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson.
Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in The Double when a government clerk encounters a man who looks exactly like him - his double, perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly tragicomic study of human consciousness.
Ronald Wilks's extraordinary new translation is accompanied here by an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson discussing these pivotal works in the context of Dostoyevsky's life and times. This edition also contains a chronology, bibliography, table of ranks and notes on each work.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow. From 1849-54 he lived in a convict prison, and in later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt. His other works available in Penguin Classics include Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot and Demons. If you enjoyed Notes from Underground and The Double, you might like Dostoyevsky's Demons, also available in Penguin Classics.
'Notes from Underground, with its mood of intellectual irony and alienation, can be seen as the first modern novel ... That sense of meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work' Malcolm Bradbury
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.
Notes from Underground & The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky
‘It is best to do nothing! The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!’Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky’s groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter sarcasm, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the ‘ant-hill’ of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence ‘underground’. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in The Double when a government clerk encounters a man who exactly resembles him – his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly study of human consciousness.Jessie Coulson’s introduction discusses the stories’ critical reception and the themes they share with Dostoyevksy’s great novels.
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."
Notti bianche
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Il sognatore delle "Notti bianche" è «una natura particolare», un idealista che passa come un'ombra ai margini della realtà, lontano dalla grettezza del mondo. Perso negli ideali di una fervida immaginazione e immerso in uno sciame di fantasticherie, il giovane vagabonda nelle evanescenti notti pietroburghesi in penosa solitudine. Un isolamento che sarà dissipato solo dall'incontro con un'altra insonne, notturna creatura che gli regalerà il sogno di un'avventura meravigliosa.
Opptegnelser fra et kjellerdyp
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Syk, ond og frastøtende. Slik presenterer Kjellermennesket seg selv. Han hart trukket seg tilbake i sin krok, i såret stolthet. Der sitter han og spinner sine tanker. Denne boka betegner et skille i forfatterens livsverk. For første gang reiser Dostojevskij her de filosofiske spørsmål og problemstillinger som han senere skulle utdype i de store romanene.
Os Demónios
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Verkhovenski e Stavróguin são os líderes de uma célula revolucionária russa. O seu objectivo é derrubar o governo, destruir a sociedade e tomar o poder. Mas quando o grupo está prestes a ser descoberto uma questão se coloca. Estarão os seus elementos dispostos a matar-se uns aos outros para encobrir o seu rasto? O romance baseia-se, em parte, na história de um estudante assassinado pelos seus colegas revolucionários. Mas é também uma descrição da Rússia do século XIX e uma acusação contra os que usam a violência em nome dos seus princípios.
Tolerado por Lenine, banido por Estaline, cujo regime parece ter antecipadamente previsto, Dostoievski só seria redescoberto na URSS a partir dos anos 60 do século XX. É que a extrema atenção com que o autor de Os Demónios seguia os acontecimentos da sua época permitiu-lhe prever os excessos e sofrimentos para que o seu país caminhava.
Os Irmãos Karamázov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
Poor Folk and Other Stories
Fyodor Dostoevsky
With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. Poor Folk, the author's first great literary triumph, is the story of a tragic relationship between an impoverished copy clerk and a young seamstress, told through their passionate letters to each other. In The Landlady Dostoyevsky portrays a dreamer hero who is captivated by a curious couple and becomes their lodger. Mr Prokharchin, inspired by a true story, is a sly comedy centring on an eccentric miser, and Polzunkov is a powerful character sketch which, in common with the other tales in this volume, questions the very nature of existence.
Poor People (Hesperus Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Povera gente
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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".
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.
Schuld und Sühne. Roman: Reclam Taschenbuch (German Edition)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostojewskijs in formaler Hinsicht vermutlich vollkommenstes Werk ist der künstlerische Ausdruck jener tiefen, moralische Abgründe auslotenden philosophischen Gibt es »einzigartige« Menschen, denen alles erlaubt ist? So wie Rodion Raskolnikow, der eine »nutzlose« alte Wucherin tötet, um seinen Auserwähltheitsanspruch zu ein Übermensch zu sein, für den die Gesetze der Moral und die Stimme des Gewissens keine Gültigkeit haben. Thomas Mann nannte es den »größten Kriminalroman aller Zeiten«: Dostojewskijs atemberaubendes Psychogramm eines Studenten, der in seiner moralischen Verblendung zum kaltblütigen Mörder wird. – Mit einer kompakten Biographie des Autors.
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 Best Short Stories of Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Offers a collection of the Russian author's shorter fiction that features both his best known works and less familiar writing, including early sketches that reveal the development of his style and his understanding of psychology.
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.
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 Devils
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Devils, or The Posessed, is the most controversial of Dostoyevsky's masterpieces. A political drama, it has been both hailed as a grim prophesy of the Russian Revolution and denounced as the work of a reactionary renegade. The book is a penetrating commentary on men and affairs, with malicious caricatures of revolutionaries and revolutionary personalities. It is also a work of tragic intensity; Dostoyevsky, tormented by the conflict between good and evil, probed into the very recesses of the mind to discover the dark passions of men.
'Stavrogin's Confession', the section omitted when the novel first appeared, has been added as an appendix in this volume.
~from the back cover
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 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 Dream of a Queer Fellow & the Pushkin Speech
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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 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 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.
The Gambler and Other Stories
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes 'Bobok', the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and enjoying the gossip of the dead; 'The Dream of a Ridiculous Man', the story of one man's plan to commit suicide and the troubling dream that follows, as well as 'A Christmas Party and a Wedding', 'A Nasty Story' and 'The Meek One'.
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.
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.
The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Short Stories)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A short Christmas story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky first published in 1876.
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 House of the Dead & The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
The Idiot (Phoenix Classics): Large Print
Fyodor Dostoevsky
This book contains several tables of HTML content to make reading easier.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.
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.
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.
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.
The Possessed (The Devils): Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society, and seize power for themselves. Together they train terrorists who are willing to lay down their lives to accomplish their goals. But when the group is threatened with exposure, will their recruits be willing to kill one of their own to cover their tracks? Savage and powerful yet lively and often comic, Demons was inspired by a real-life political murder and is a scathing and eerily prescient indictment of those who use violence to serve their beliefs. The Possessed, also known in English as Devils ('Besy') and The Demons is the third of Dostoevsky's five major novels.
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.
Three Short Novels (Poor Folk, the Double, and the Eternal Husband)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Umiliati e offesi
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pubblicato a puntate nel 1861 sulla rivista Vremja, è il primo grande romanzo di Dostoevskij dopo il ritorno dalla deportazione in Siberia. Umiliati e offesi è costruito secondo i moduli del romanzo d'appendice in cui colpi di scena, intreccio, estrema inquietudine dei personaggi, tempi narrativi ora bruschi, ora trattenuti, danno vita a una narrazione d'effetto, spesso avvolta nel mistero. L'autore schiera i suoi personaggi su due fronti, secondo una contrapposizione netta tra vizi e virtù, luce e tenebre. Tuttavia, di là dall'epopea avventurosa, la sua capacità di soffrire insieme con i singoli personaggi, l'intensità dei sentimenti che egli infonde, conferiscono una tensione continua a questo romanzo di relazioni impossibili e d'amore.
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.
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
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.
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...
Zločin i kazna
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jedan od najvećih romana ruske književnosti. Roman sa elementima kriminalnog, socijalnog, psihološkog i filozofskog romana.
Белые ночи (Russian Edition)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Повесть, впервые опубликованная в 1848 году.
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.
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
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