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Fyodor Dostoevsky Bibliography
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) wrote novels, novellas, short stories, essays and other literary works. Raised by a literate family, Dostoyevsky discovered literature at an early age, beginning when his mother introduced the Bible to him. Nannies near the hospitalsin the grounds of which he was raisedintroduced Dostoyevsky to fairy tales, legends and sagas. His mother's subscription to the ''Library of Reading'' gave him access to the leading contemporary Russian and non-Russian literature. After his mother's death, Dostoyevsky moved from a boarding school to a military academy and despite the resulting lack of money, he was captivated by literature until his death. Dostoyevsky started his writing career after finishing university. He started translating literature from Frenchwhich he learnt at the boarding schoolinto Russian, and then wrote short stories. With the success of his first novel, ''Poor Folk'', he became known throughout Saint Petersburg and Russia. Vissarion Belin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian literature, Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential Masterpiece, masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmospheres of Russian Empire, 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include ''Crime and Punishment'' (1866), ''The Idiot'' (1869), Demons (Dostoevsky novel), ''Demons'' (1872), ''The Adolescent'' (1875) and ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1880). His ''Notes from Underground'', a novella published in 1864, is considered one of the first works of existentialism, existentialist literature. Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends and through books by Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vremya (magazine)
''Vremya'' () () was a monthly magazine published by Fyodor Dostoevsky under the editorship of his brother Mikhail Dostoevsky. Due to his status as a former convict, Fyodor himself was unable to be the official editor.Joseph Frank, Introduction to ''The House of the Dead'' and ''Poor Folk'', Barnes and Noble, 2004 Publication history The magazine began publication in March 1861. Dostoevsky's novel ''The House of the Dead (novel), The House of the Dead'' was first published in ''Vremya''. The monthly installments of ''The House of the Dead'' brought considerable popularity and financial success to the magazine. Three of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black Cat (short story), The Black Cat", and "The Devil in the Belfry", were given their first Russian language publication in ''Vremya''. In the same issue, Dostoevsky anonymously published an autobiographical story, "St. Petersburg Dreams in Verse and Prose," that mimicked some elements of Poe's style. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Another Man's Wife And A Husband Under The Bed
"Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed" (, ''Chuzhaya zhena i muzh pod krovatyu'') is an 1848 short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Background The story originated from two separate pieces: "Another Man's Wife" and "A Jealous Husband" (published in 1848 in the journal ''Notes of the Fatherland''). In preparing the 1859 two-volume collected works, the writer combined both in one story — "Another Man’s Wife and a Husband Under the Bed". The first part only slightly changed certain lines, while the second part is more significantly altered. In his story, Dostoevsky utilized some techniques of the vaudeville Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France in the middle of the 19th century. A ''vaudeville'' was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a drama ... genre, in particular the construction of the dialogues, replete with puns. The title of the story, too, resembles pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Raw Youth
''The Adolescent'' (), also translated as ''A Raw Youth'' or ''An Accidental Family'', is a novel by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in monthly installments in 1875 in the Russian literary magazine ''Otechestvennye Zapiski''. Originally, Dostoevsky had created the work under the title ''Discord''. The novel was not considered to be a success after its publication in Russia, and it is generally thought to be not on the same level as Dostoevsky's other major novels of the period. However, some modern critics value it highly and consider it to be one of his most underestimated works. Plot Arkady Makarovich Dolgoruky is the adopted son of the former serf Makar Ivanovich Dolgoruky and the illegitimate son of the provincial nobleman Andrei Petrovich Versilov. Having come of age he moves from the country to St. Petersburg. Versilov lives there with Arkady's mother Sofya Andreevna, and with his legitimate daughter Anna Andreyevna. Arkady is in possession of two imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demons (Dostoyevsky Novel)
''Demons'' (, ; sometimes also called ''The Possessed'' or ''The Devils'') is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal '' The Russian Messenger'' in 1871–72. It is considered one of the four masterworks written by Dostoevsky after his return from Siberian exile, along with ''Crime and Punishment'' (1866), ''The Idiot'' (1869), and '' The Brothers Karamazov'' (1880). ''Demons'' is a social and political satire, a psychological drama, and large-scale tragedy. Joyce Carol Oates has described it as "Dostoevsky's most confused and violent novel, and his most satisfactorily 'tragic' work." According to Ronald Hingley, it is Dostoevsky's "greatest onslaught on Nihilism", and "one of humanity's most impressive achievements—perhaps even its supreme achievement—in the art of prose fiction." ''Demons'' is an allegory of the potentially catastrophic consequences of the political and moral nihilism that were becoming prevalent in Russia in the 1860s. A fictional town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Eternal Husband
''The Eternal Husband'' (, ''Vechny muzh'') is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in 1870 in '' Zarya'' magazine. The novel's plot revolves around the complicated relationship between the nobleman Velchaninov and the widower Trusotsky, whose deceased wife was Velchaninov's former lover. Plot summary Alexei Ivanovich Velchaninov is a land owner who stays in Saint Petersburg for a trial about a piece of land. He receives a visit from Pavel Pavlovich Trusotsky, an old acquaintance who recently became a widower. Velchaninov had an affair with Trusotsky's wife Natalia, and he realizes that he is the biological father of Liza, Trusotsky's eight-year-old daughter. Velchaninov, who doesn't want Liza to be raised by an alcoholic, brings Liza to a foster family. Liza dies there. Trusotsky now wants to marry Nadia, the fifteen-year-old daughter of civil servant Zakhlyobinin. She's the sixth daughter of eight. Trusotsky takes Velchaninov with him to visit h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notes From Underground
''Notes from Underground'' ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform Russian: ; also translated as ''Notes from the Underground'' or ''Letters from the Underworld'') is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky first published in the journal ''Epoch'' in 1864. It is a first-person narrative in the form of a "confession". The work was originally announced by Dostoevsky in ''Epoch'' under the title "A Confession". The novella presents itself as an excerpt from the memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man), who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. Although the first part of the novella has the form of a monologue, the narrator's form of address to his reader is acutely dialogized. According to Mikhail Bakhtin, in the Underground Man's confession "there is literally not a single monologically firm, undissociated word". The Underground Man's every word anticipates the words of an other, with whom he enters into an obses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humiliated And Insulted
''Humiliated and Insulted'' (, ''Unizhennye i oskorblyonnye'') — also known in English as ''The Insulted and Humiliated'', ''The Insulted and the Injured'' or ''Injury and Insult'' — is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1861 in the monthly magazine ''Vremya''. Plot introduction Narrated by a young novelist, Vanya (Ivan Petrovich), who has just released his first novel (which bears an obvious resemblance to Dostoevsky's own first novel, ''Poor Folk''), it consists of two gradually converging plot lines. One deals with Vanya's close friend and former love object, Natasha, who has left her family to live with her new lover, Alyosha. Alyosha is the saintly but dim-witted son of Prince Valkovsky, who hopes to gain financially by marrying Alyosha off to an heiress, Katya. Valkovsky's cruel machinations to break up Alyosha and Natasha identify him as one of the most memorable "predatory types" that Dostoevsky created. The other plotline focuses on a thirteen-year-old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Village Of Stepanchikovo
''The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants: From the Notes of an Unknown'' (, ''Selo Stepanchikovo i ego obitateli. Iz zapisok neizvestnogo''), also known as ''The Friend of the Family'', is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and first published in 1859. Summary Sergey Alexandrovich (), the narrator, is summoned from St. Petersburg to the estate of his uncle, Colonel Yegor Ilyich Rostanev (), and finds that a middle-aged charlatan named Foma Fomich Opiskin () has swindled the nobles around him into believing that he is virtuous despite behavior that is passive-aggressive, selfish, and spiteful. Foma obliges the servants to learn French, and gets furious when they are caught dancing the ''kamarinskaya''. Uncle Yegor asks Sergey to marry the poor young girl Nastenka. It turns out Uncle Yegor is in love with her himself, but Foma wants him to marry the wealthy Tatyana Ivanova instead. Tatyana has several other suitors, including Mizinchikov, who confides in Sergey a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uncle's Dream
''Uncle's Dream'' (, ''Dyadyushkin son'') is an 1859 novella by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. The first work of Dostoevsky after a long pause, the novella was written during the author's stay in Semipalatinsk. It was first published in the Russian magazine ''Russkoye Slovo'' (1859, No. 3). Plot The action of the story takes place in the city of Mordasovo, where Mariya Aleksandrovna Moskaleva lives, an energetic lady with a 23-year-old daughter. Her daughter, Zinaida, rejects the proposals of her only boyfriend, Pavel Aleksandrovich Mozglyakov, and there are no other worthy gentlemen in their small town. In addition, Zinaida still loves the poor district teacher, whom her mother did not allow her to marry. Mariya dreams of marrying Zinaida to Prince K.. One day, Prince K. stops at the Moskaleva's house - a gentleman of a very respectable age, suffering, according to the townspeople, from senile dementia and outwardly resembling a "dead man on springs." While talking with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netochka Nezvanova (novel)
''Netochka Nezvanova'' () is an unfinished novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was originally intended as a large-scale work in the form of a 'confession', but a background sketch of the eponymous heroine's childhood and adolescence is all that was completed and published. According to translator Jane Kentish, this first publication was intended as "no more than a prologue to the novel".Fyodor Dostoevsky: ''Netochka Nezvanova''. Translated with an introduction by Jane Kentish. Penguin Books. 1985. p 5. Dostoevsky began work on the novel in 1848 and the first completed section was published at the end of 1849. Further work was prevented by the author's arrest and exile to a Siberian detention camp for his part in the activities of the Petrashevsky Circle. After his return in 1859, Dostoevsky never resumed work on ''Netochka Nezvanova'', leaving this fragment forever incomplete. The novel is in the style of a ''Bildungsroman'', depicting experiences and emotions from Netochka's formati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Landlady (novella)
''The Landlady'' () is a novella by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, written and published 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 Ordynov 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 Dostoevsky'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. Plot After the reclusive and bookish scholar Vasily Ordynov is compelled to leave his apartment he wanders aimlessly through Saint Petersburg, contemplating his despair over a loveless life, his childhood and his future. Through this distraction he finds himself within a church, where he notices an old man, Ilia Murin, with his yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
