Fyodor Dostoevsky
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This story is about a wedding that is interrupted by a Christmas tree. The guests are confused and don't know what to do. The bride and groom are the only ones who seem to be enjoying themselves. This story is an example of how people can get wrapped up in their own lives and forget about the people around them.
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This story is about a wedding that is interrupted by a Christmas tree. The guests are confused and don't know what to do. The bride and groom are the only ones who seem to be enjoying themselves. This story is an example of how people can get wrapped up in their own lives and forget about the people around them.
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The Petersburg Chronicle by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a sophisticated work that uses complex language to explore various themes. The work is set in Saint Petersburg, and follows the lives of various characters living in the city. Dostoyevsky uses various literary devices to explore the themes of love, redemption, and morality.
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A predecessor to such monumental works as "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov", "Notes from Underground" represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky's writing towards the more political side. In this work we find a story in two parts, the first a rambling memoir of a bitter, isolated, retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg, Russia. In the second part we follow the unnamed narrator through a series of events which further exhibit...
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Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a secret group of radical utopians, Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years in a Siberian labor camp-a terrible mental, spiritual, and physical ordeal that inspired him to write the novel The House of the Dead.
Told from the point of view of a fictitious narrator-a convict serving a ten-year sentence for murdering his wife-The House of the Dead describes in vivid detail the horrors that Dostoevsky himself witnessed...
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Français
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Les Carnets du sous-sol (Mémoires écrits dans un souterrain), publiés en 1864 et présentés comme deux fragments des mémoires d'un homme reclus, coupé d'un monde qu'il hait et qui l'humilie, dans lesquels il expose sa conception du monde et quelques épisodes de sa vie, sont en quelque sorte le prélude et la matrice des grands romans de Dostoïevski.
« Je suis malade... Je suis méchant. [...] J'avais alors vingt-quatre ans. Ma vie était...
88) Demons
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Demons” - is a work by the classic author of Russian literature and one of the best novel writers in the world F. M. Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881). This is one of the most politicized author's novels. It was written under the impression of the first sprouts of the terroristic and radical movements among the Russian intellectuals and commoners.
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"Bobok" is a 1873 short story by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is presented as the diary of Ivan Ivanovitch, a writer who goes to a funeral where he falls into deep contemplation. After a while, he begins to hear the voices of the recently dead, listening to their conversations about card games and political scandals. Our eavesdropper also learns that it is the "inertia" of consciousness that enables them to communicate in the grave, which...
91) A Weak Heart
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Dostoevsky was 27 years old when he wrote this story. It revolves around two young men, true soul mates, who live in each other's pockets, sharing a flat, social and emotional joys and setbacks. They are young professionals of the time contemplating life, happiness, unexplored joys. One of the two friends develops a vision of universal happiness conflicting with his individual pleasures, and preventing him from marrying a beautiful young girl.
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Master translation of a neglected Russian classic into English
Long before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago came Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead, a compelling account of the horrific conditions in Siberian labor camps. First published in 1861, this novel, based on Dostoevsky's own experience as a political prisoner, is a forerunner of his famous novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
The characters and situations that...
94) Die Sanfte
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Die Erzählung basiert auf zwei Zeitungsmeldungen, in denen von einer Frau berichtet wird, die sich, mit einer Ikone in der Hand, aus dem Fenster eines fünften Stockwerks gestürzt hatte. Der Erzählung geht ein "Vorwort" voraus, in dem ein fiktiver Herausgeber die Erzählung als "fantastisch" bezeichnet. Er bezieht sich weniger auf den Inhalt der realistischen Erzählung als vielmehr auf die Form. "Denken Sie sich einen Mann, der vor der Leiche...
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The central idea of The Idiot, according to its author, was "to depict a completely beautiful human being." More prosaically, the novel was intended to shore up Dostoyevsky's professional and financial state. The portrait of Prince Myshkin, a holy fool, was created in desperation amidst the squalid poverty engendered by the Russian writer's compulsive gambling. Dostoyevsky's entire future depended on the success of his next novel, which began as one...
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After attending a wedding, a man is reminded of a Christmas party that he had been invited to years before. At the party, the man found himself isolated from most of the conversation, so began watching the other guests and the children as he idled. Soon, he witnessed an event that will eventually result in the wedding at which he is to be a guest years later. "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding" was adapted into a film of the same name in 2000, and was...
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Schuld und Sühne ist ein Meisterwerk der russischen Literatur, verfasst von Fjodor Dostojewski und 1866 erstmals veröffentlicht. Dieser klassische Roman ist eine psychologische Erkundung des menschlichen Wesens, die tief in die Psyche des geplagten und zerrissenen Protagonisten Raskolnikow eindringt, dessen Abstieg in den Wahnsinn in Folge der Schuldgefühle nach der Begehung eines Mordes sowohl abschreckend als auch fesselnd ist.
Der Roman spielt...
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Español
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Fiodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky nació en Moscú en 1821 y murió en San Petersburgo en 1881. Es reconocido como uno de los más grandes escritores de la literatura soviética e internacional y autor de las obras maestras Crimen y castigo y Los hermanos Karamazov. La obra de Dostoievski, poco comprendida por sus contemporáneos, marcó profundamente el pensamiento moderno y la literatura occidental. La obra Memorias del Subsuelo ofrece una poderosa...
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Los textos de esta antología, extraídos de sus principales obras, se detienen a considerar el contraste entre el bien y el mal, Dios y la inmortalidad del alma, y las propuestas sociales que rechazan la trascendencia. Su perspectiva, siempre detallada y minuciosa en el análisis de lo humano, se siente fuertemente atraída por la inocencia, y persigue la dimensión más trascendente del hombre.
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In Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed, Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the complex dynamics of marriage and infidelity. The story follows a man named Ivan who is married to a woman named Anna, but is also in love with another woman named Lizaveta. Ivan becomes increasingly paranoid and jealous, convinced that his wife is cheating on him with Lizaveta.